Munich to Switzerland

Munich had been a great place for our rest day and a huge thanks goes out to Daniel, Stefan & Baerbl, Andy and all of their friends for making it a memorable weekend.

Le Tour de Fat rolled out of Munich on Monday 10 July with the riders making good time down to the pretty town of Ottobeuren where we spent the night in the youth hostel and enjoyed a couple of ends of petanque, much to the bemusement of the locals and probably to the annoyance of the town maintenance staff after we scuffed their perfect gravel town square. Stage 6 - 91.1km

Tuesday brought with it high temperatures on the run down to the town of Lindau and ended with drama when our directeur sportif Tommy Henri abandoned the tour (see separate story below). Tempers were fraying somewhat and when a little, middle-aged man in stupid sandles pushed in front of me in the queue at the campsite office, he will never know how close he came from having a CO2 cannister inserted in his fundamental orifice and let off, much to the amusement of everyone behind him, I'm sure. However, the tour goes on and with the alps ahead of us we spent a very fine evening on Lindau Insel, a perfect little village on the Bodensee making it back to the tents in time for an almighty thunder storm that had us convinced we were moments away from being sizzled by a lightning strike and forever avoiding climbing the Alps. Stage 7 - 102.3km