Cycling the Donau Bodensee Radweg in Germany – Day 1 Ulm to Biberach

The first day of cycling the Donau-Bodensee Radweg from the city of Ulm to Biberach. My route included a quick stop in the town of Laupheim.

This cycling route is a great way to see the Oberschwaben region of Germany, leaving the River Danube and heading to Lake Constance.
You could include it as a side tour if you were cycling the along the River Danube trail, or make it the focus of an enjoyable week long cycling holiday in Germany.

You can read about what to see and do in Ulm here – http://www.davestravelpages.com/ulm-germany

Check out my playlist to see more vlogs from cycling Danube to Lake Constance, and read full post about the trip here: https://www.davestravelpages.com/danube-lake-constance-cycle-route

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Or in everyone this is Dave and Dave travel pages calm and this is day one of my cycling journey from the Danube to Lake Constance and I’m starting my journey in ohm which is a city in Germany Germany even and behind me you can see old Minster and this is a worse

Camera shot in the world but can you see how tall that is apparently that is the tallest church fire in the world and I climbed to the top of that yesterday and it’s about 868 steps or 72 or something anyways about steps so why am I here in

Germany well I’ve been invited to promote cycle tourism in the region and particularly on this route I think they’re celebrating the anniversary could be 40 years I should have done my research before making this video but I’m fairly certain it’s 40 years and they’ve given me a higher bike which is

Just behind me here which is benches okay you know it’s going to do the job as a fan going past now so you probably can’t hear me maybe pause there we go so anyway I’m starting my journey in all and this is the central square in front

Of the cathedral as you can see around me and then I’m going to head kind of southwards and I’m heading south towards the Lake Constance which is actually on three countries and I’m going to head to the German bit it’s a four or five days side vimtrek it’s all been organised for

Me so I don’t need to worry about accommodation or anything like that but there is one small drawback there’s not actually given me a map so apparently it is easy to find your way around so I think I’ve got a head to the Danube TURN RIGHT keep pedaling and hopefully

There’ll be a signpost somewhere if not I’m sure Google Maps will come to my rescue is there anything else I should add I don’t think so I’m going to quickly take you around ohm now and then we’re going to hit the Danube trail something I’ve so called

Twice now so this will be my third time cycling this small section and then at some point that track should then diverge and hit the Lake Constance routes so that’s it from me for now I will talk to you in a bit which is so as I mentioned almost definitely a place

Where you could spend a couple of days sightseeing there’s plenty to see and do here and there’s also a surprising amount of museums I didn’t actually get to see as much as I wanted to because I’m on a bit of a schedule but that said I’ve already

Been here three times so there’s no reason why I can’t come back for a fall as I left the city I followed the signposts out from the center and towards the Danube which is very easy to find basically and once I was there it’s just a matter of turning right as I

Mentioned before I’ve cycled the Danube in both directions now and I would go as far as to say it is the best cycling route in Europe it’s suitable for people of all ages of all abilities of all levels of fitness you can take your own bike you can hire bikes along the way

You can stay in hotels you can camp you can do 20 miles a day or 30 miles or you can do 100 miles a day it’s really up to you as you can see it’s also very well signposted and the route takes you through the countryside where it can the route in

Germany is sealed for the most part hi there so I’m about half an hour into my journey not sure if you can hear me I’m using the headphones as my speaker again then we put let me put this earphone and again there we go you should be out here

Me now so about half an hour into my journey ten kilometers outside of all and the path so far has followed the river Danube and it keeps you off the road and it’s a sealed path so I’m not sure if you can see just behind me here

But that is a seal path literally just for cyclists which is what makes cycling in Germany so great really because it keeps you away from the traffic it’s also been relatively flat as well maybe there’s a slight uphill you can see the bike behind me there and behind me is

The river Danube itself so I believe if because I’m kind of using Google Maps I believe that my path will lead to Danu probably in about five kilometers or ten kilometers time and then I start heading south that’s all I’ve got to say for now the weather is a little bit overcast of

The minute so I apologize it it’s a little bit shadowy but it’s pretty good for cycling actually and that’s it so I’ll catch you in a bit just so I have found the first signpost at least I think it’s the first signpost so that means cyclists info and there’s kind of

A map there in in a form of a cyclist that’s the Danube cycle path which is the Donner Donelle red one under vague I’m really terrible at German pronunciation it’s quite amusing and this one going down here is a doornail bodensee which is where I’m heading to so looking at the

Map it looks like I’m in blue donno bodensee so I carry on along a little bit and then I go through well okay it’s not very clear but hopefully there’ll be a signpost so it looks like full system to go and the path I’m following is the thornell bodensee they under there no

Red fonda bait I really should learn some German or at least try and learn how to pronounce it properly anyway there we go it looks like I know where I’m going now so that was fairly easy and I was then on the Donnell bodensee read way and the itinerary I was

Following was made out for me by Sandra thank you very much Sandra and let me get this right of the over schwaben al Ghul Tourism Board or Tourism Association something like that anyway my destined ultimate destination is Lake Constance but the destination for the day was actually Bibb Iraq and along the

Way I refused to stop at load time where I was going to do a brewery tour it didn’t go as planned but I’ll explain in a minute as you can see so I think through these villages you get these typically tall German farmhouses and they look absolutely huge and a couple

Of days later I got to go onto a local rural Farm Museum almost which you’ll see in another couple of videos time anyway the route to follow is very easy everything was signposted lovely and the cycling was just wonderful really which is what makes cycling in Germany so

Great hi there so I’ve arrived in lout pine and I was due to do a brewery tour and you can see the brewery kilometer I’ve arrived a bit late because there are a bunch of roadworks on the way and so I’ve about half an hour late which is

A little bit bad and there’s no one here at the minute so I can’t do the brewery tour me personally I don’t drink anyway so there’s no real loss there but if you are going to do this cycle tour going ahead to this brewery here if you can

See the sign and it says cronin brewery and book yourself at all I’m sure it’ll be very interesting the beer will be tasty actually I think I’m gonna take a look we’ll look around the town and then good lunch cheers for now so after lunch at Ristorante Bruce Lee I then carried

On cycling the game to my destination at e-rep and like I said before the day cycling was really easy the sky cleared up a little bit it was a little bit warm but no problem and everything was sealed along the way there’s not a lot to say that I’ve not

Said before about cycling in Germany really there’s a lot of countries that should look to what they’ve done here and perhaps when they think of upgrade in cycling infrastructure think a little bit beyond sort of signposting assess rands route through a housing estate in the UK with broken glass and think what

Can we do to encourage people to not just make cycling a part of their daily life but a part of their recreation activities as well anyway that’s me banging on about cycling I guess it’s what I’m passionate about there we go anyway I’m going to leave you with some

More clips cycling through the countryside as I head towards bib record hi there so that’s the cycling part of my day over and I’m staying in that hotel behind me which is called hotel zu risks and that’s in a place called a bit back I think that’s the

Name of the town I’m in anyway it all becomes a bit of a blur after a while when you’ve got a whole list of things you should be remembering well yeah difficult to remember where you are and what you’re doing you can actually see my face let’s take this off yeah that

Might be helped so the cycling is over but now I’m going to go walk into a Bieber bag which I assume is the name of the place and I’m meeting a guide at the Museum and we’re going to check out the museum and then I’ve got a dinner and then it will be

Back to the hotel and ready for another day cycling so the cycling today was pretty easy it was just 50 kilometres I think and the weather was warm all day and I was that it really the kind of passed through countryside and some quiet country lanes and that’s all I’ve got to

Say so I will catch you later is going out