The apartment hotel was a converted barrack of the Imperial Era, which after 1945 was occupied by French soldiers. Our ample room in former times was a crew accommodation for probably 10 soldiers, which subsequently was equipped with bathroom and kitchen. We liked to stay there very much.
After having checked in we collected our bicycles from the tour operator. The many bicycles in his big storeroom showed that most of the borrowers use to come during summer. The storekeeper gave us a repair set with a spare bicycle tube. l thought by myself a replace of a defective tube would be a nice Job for a vacation because never in my life had done that before not even as a boy. For the worst case we had got a voucher for a repair and a emergency phone number in our paper work.
Having got our new bicycles we took a ride downtown. Constance is a nice old city with many bikeways. The many remnants of the lake dwellings at the lake shore show that this was a populated era already at prehistoric times. And the old Romans had good reason to be there, because there are two connections crossing: Firstly the river Rhine leaves the Lake Constance and they could control the shipping traffic going out and in. Secondly a land connection for people who want to cross the lake Constance at its narrowest place (to Meersburg). So this city is a place of historic importance.
We had a nice walk there from the cathedral to the port, saw the beautiful turn of century houses. And for dinner we had a "Flammkuchen" (some sort of pizza with beacon and onion) and a glass of "Suser" (new wine, with almost no alcohol). In the pedestrian zone we found two street musicians: Billy and Jon. In appearance they seemed to be a duo (singer and drummer man). But after a closer investigation we found out that it is an early technique of an hidden instrumental self accompaniment.
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