Friday

Today we had to get back to Konstanz to our Hotel, where the car was being parked and where we would be staying at for one night before the ride home. First tourist spot for us was the historic place Arbon, which is inhabited since the Stone Age. The raised situation and view over the lake were strategically important and so it is not astonishing that there were found remains of late Roman fortifications. The Latin name of Arbon, Arbor Felix (meaning "happy tree"). In the middle age was added rather an impressive donjon. Arbon has got some nice old houses especially at the fish market. Remarkable are the shutters: Solid wood, closed top-down and can be locked from inside; these really can keep out almost anything.




Along the shore we biked to Romanshorn a city with a greater harbor - the counterpart of the German city of Friedrichshafen on the opposite shore. Next to the port is a nice park with a beautiful fountain.


Along the way we passed an apple juice factory, where the fruit farmers were delivering their crop. They unloaded their apples it in a big weighers from where they fell into a storage. Would you buy a bottle of apple must from the storage hand ? I would do - anytime !



Sometimes the bikeway led along the railway tracks. At a crossing the had an acoustic signal plant. It shows that those signaling devices not always have to be nasty.


Riding along the lake we passed a nice little power station. I think it is a clever idea letting go a stream of water through a hydro turbine to generate electricity that way.



At Muensterlingen we visited the Saint Leonhard Chapel and the Monastery Church.



Eventually we reached Constance where we checked in again in our nice imperial barrack hotel. Then we walked downtown and had a good dinner in a pleasant restaurant. The next morning we had a nice shopping tour there before we headed home by car.

Well, that was our wonderful bike tour around the Lake Constance.