Took ages to get to sleep last night. I was just too hot. Probably a big meal just before bed didn't help.
Fairly standard breakfast, then on the road at 8:25. Except one of the guys left his backpack in the lobby of the hotel so we had to go back for it, and didn't get going again til 8:55.
Drove back along Bodensee, and down to the lake to take a ferry across to Konstanz. That was pretty cool, and relatively quick too.
Meersburg-Konstanz Ferry
Konstanz ferry terminal
Konstanz is a pretty little town. A lot like Zurich, except with a bigger old town area, and we had a guide for a while in the beginning. So got more out of the day than yesterday. With the guide we saw the main market place, went out to the lake to see the spinning lady, past a building that used to be on the water's edge, through the fish market, saw the "high house", the old rathaus, and heaps and heaps of 700 year old buildings. Went into the cathedral and finished up in the butcher's markets.
Building built in 1526 to show off success
Konzilgebäude (Council Building)
Graf Zeppelin monument
Konstanz waterfront
Konstanz waterfront
Altes Rathaus
Trichterbrunnen (Funnel Fountain)
Airship flying over Konstanz
Haus Schaub Konstanz
Haus Schaub Konstanz
The High House of Konstanz built in 1294
Zum Vorderen Tanz built in 1490
Buildings in Konstanz (with Münster behind)
Münster Unserer Lieben Frau (Cathedral of Our Lady)
Münster Unserer Lieben Frau (Cathedral of Our Lady)
Interior of Münster Unserer Lieben Frau
Interior of Münster Unserer Lieben Frau
Zum Deutschen Haus (The German House), now Hotel Graf Zeppelin
On our own, we went out to the Lutheran church, then back to the cathedral to go up the tower, grabbed some food in the markets, went and stood on the border between Germany and Switzerland, wandered up past the station and finished up looking at the spinning lady in better light. Quite a lot of walking.
Me on the eight-legged bronze horse statue at Kaiserbrunnen
Jan Hus monument outside Lutherkirche
Lutherkirche (Luther Church)
Bell outside Lutherkirche
St Stephan's Church
Stair well in the tower of the Münster
View northeast from Konstanz Minster
View east from Konstanz Minster
View north to Bismarckturm (Bismarck Tower)
Alexander-von-Humboldt Gymnasium School
Alte Rheinbrücke (Old Rhine Bridge)
Buildings on Seestraße
Bodensee
St Stephan's Church
View southeast from Konstanz Minster
Springbrunnen auf dem See (Fountain on the Lake)
Inside the spire of Konstanz Minster
Bell in Konstanz Minster
Schnetztor - 14th century city gate
Schnetztor - 14th century city gate and clock tower
Photo by Mum
Me standing on the border of Switzerland (left) and Germany (right)
Photo by Mum
Konstanz railway station
Lighthouse on Bodensee
The Imperia - a rotating statue of a woman holding men resembling Pope Martin V and Emperor Sigismund
Closeup of the Imperia
So then back on the coach at dentist time and headed for Augsburg. But we ended up going allll the way around the western end of Bodensee - back past the hotel we stayed at last night. Not sure why we didn't go back on the ferry. Or why we didn't stay the night a lot closer to Konstanz last night.
Anyways.
Drove most of the afternoon.
Basílica of Birnau (and an airship)
Airship near Kressbronn am Bodensee
Stopped just next to Legoland for a pitstop in the afternoon. I was pretty excited. :)
Big Lego bricks outside Legoland Deutschland
Mostly finished The Hindenburg book. And we saw several airships today floating around the lake. Still felt quite strange to be reading that book around that area.
Got to the hotel after 7pm. Quite a nice building - it's in a tower - looks like an apartment complex. We'd settled in but after going to the loo before dinner the toilet started running quite heavily after the cistern had filled. Flushed it again but it did the same thing. Went down for dinner and let them know at reception. But since their maintenance people are off for the weekend they said they would just put us in another room. After dinner the toilet was still running although not as much. Flushed it again but this time it stayed off. So seemingly an intermittent problem. But not the sort of thing you want to be dealing with after bed time, so we decided to move rooms just in case. Have the balcony door open to let some cool air into the room. Maybe I'll be able to get it cool enough to use the doona for a change tonight??
Dinner was in the hotel. A very nice soup, some lovely tender steak, and a dessert which was a cross between ice cream and cheesecake.
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