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| A pleasant spot for an afternoon snack... |
With a full
buffet breakfast available at 6.00am there was very little excuse not to make
an early start for the bridges, highways and byways---except that it dark until
just before 8.00am. Basel is a city of a major river and many bridges, it was
important to select the correct bridge crossing to hook up with my planned
route along highway #34 on the north (German) Rhine bank.
Weather,
for the sixth day in a row, is perfect, not a cloud in sight, mild, no wind and
a mid-day temp at about 22C. The east-bound walk today was an assortment of
riverside trails and foot paths along the busy #34 highway. To the north of the
river are steep hills so the possibilities of even this navigator getting lost
are limited, as the Rhine at this point is rarely out of the walker’s view.
Everything on
this perfect Sunday morning was rolling along fine just 3 kms out from
Rheinfelden, with a projected arrival time at Rheinfelden of just after 12 noon.
At this point my right buggy wheel tyre cover went into seizure and left it's seating on the rim, exposing the tube. I re-seated the cover, --- 100 meters
it happened again, and yet again another 100 metres down the road. For some
reason, the tyre cover has expanded and no longer fits the rim. My initial thought
was that I had installed it counter to the direction of rotation—this proved
not to be the case. Luckily, I was able to ‘two wheel it’ into Rheinfelden and
quickly found a hotel. Being Sunday, the “zwei rad” (bike shop) near the hotel was closed—so first thing tomorrow morning, I will be their first customer.
After relaxation (aka: a snooze) and some hand washing, strolled crossed
the river & the open border point into twin town of Rheinfelden,
Switzerland. A very attractive large village, quaint and high end (as in
expensive) like everything else in Switzerland. All things being equal with the
tyre situation, tomorrow it’s off eastwards again, along this final leg of
the trail.22 kms. walked today per Google Maps.
956 Cumulative kms. walked.
Type of overnight lodging: Danner Hotel
Cost of lodging: 66E.
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