DAY 3: Konstanz - Stetten

Great day, but very long. We popped back into Switzerland early on and followed the Untersee, a follow-on of Lake Konstanz which narrows eventually into the Rhine. The scenery was amazing as were the lake-side villages. We arrived at our favourite village so far, Stein am Rhein, full of very old, intricate buildings. This is where we found out the there had been a time change. For the last two days, we had been working on an hour behind, which meant that when we thought it was 12 in Stein am Rhein, it was actually 1. This made us press on, but unfortunately it was the wrong day to do so. This part of the Rhine is full of hills, so we spent a large proportion of the day climbing. We found a great spot to settle for lunch in Schaffhausen, only a few kilometres before the Rheinfall, the Rhine's waterfall.

Shortly after lunch, we saw the falls, took our pictures, and hurried on (I say hurried, but in fact we both had painful knees so we actually took our time while saying to ourselves that we were in a rush). The rest of the day continued, up and down hills and along the widening river. There was much confusion as to which path we should take near the end, and finally, after our biggest hill yet, we reached Stetten, Germany, a whopping 8 hours after we began.