We passed 1000 miles yesterday and those crazy royals stole all the limelight. The germans love the royal wedding, half of them we meet cant believe that we didnt fly home for it. Anyway thanks to william and katie for the free day off, we celebrated your wedding by doing some more cycling.

We stayed in Ulm over Easter, the city where Albert Einstein was born, they´ve commemorated this awesome fact by opening a bread museum. We been following the Danube east all week and have again suffered from campsite non-existence, we were forced to sleep in a couple of pub bier gartens during the week, which to be honest wasnt the end of the world. On our ride to Passau we passed 1000 miles and celebrated with a spot of lunch.

We cross the border into Austria tomorrow. Germany has been good to us, bike paths everywhere, great coffee and cake shops and people more impressed that we had 3 months off work than the fact we were cycling to Istanbul. Only improvements I would make if I was granted an audience with Mrs Merkel would be to recommend that you dont need to ring the town hall bell every 15 minutes through the night and to sell something other than pig to eat.

auf wiedersehen,
Ed