Graduation and AMT BlackForest, Tue Jun 6, 2023

Adriatic Motor Tours Alsace and Black Forest, Day 4 Schafhaussen Switzerland → Ribeauville France

Through a picturesque landscape we cross into Switzerland to witness Europe’s mightiest waterfall, the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen. With a width of 150 meters, the Rhine drops (coming from Lake Constance) over the rocks from a height of 23 meters.

We leave Switzerland, heading to the Southern Black Forest, riding undulating, sweeping roads in this part of the Germany.

In the second half of the day we ride past Freiburg, crossing to France, partially connecting to the Alsace Wine Route with its picturesque villages like Ribeauville and Colmar, into the impressive Vosges Mountains, covering a large area of the Alsacian territory.

Kathi really liked the ride around two lakes and the parts through forests, but didn't care for the amount of city driving and weird intersections.

Ride Log

Time	Minutes	km	kph avg	Comment
8:16am	2.6	getting ready to go
8:18am	7.4	4 km	30
8:26am	73.4	the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen
9:39am	34.2	27 km	47
10:13am	2.0	map
10:15am	11.7	14 km	71
10:27am	3.6	map
10:30am	22.6	24 km	63
10:53am	3.1	map
10:56am	1.0	1 km	35
10:57am	45.7	coffee at Konditorei - Café Roters Kerdraon https://caferoters.de/
11:43am	38.9	36 km	56
12:21pm	2.2	map
12:24pm	28.9	25 km	52
12:53pm	20.8	snack stop at Belchen-Multen
1:13pm	26.2	21 km	49
1:40pm	2.2	map
1:42pm	16.8	14 km	50
1:59pm	1.5	map
2:00pm	31.3	32 km	61
2:31pm	2.0	map
2:33pm	1.5	0 km	18
2:35pm	60.7	stop for canal gondola ride in Colmar
3:36pm	9.8	3 km	20
3:46pm	15.2	gas stop
4:01pm	1.4	1 km	28
4:02pm	3.4	map
4:06pm	20.8	14 km	42
4:26pm		arrive Ribeauville, HOTEL de la TOUR

8h17m	3h58m moving	208 km	52.4 kph	48% moving, 259 minutes of breaks

Rider Briefing

After a particularly good breakfast, we were out before 8:30am.

Rheinfall (Rhine Falls) near Schaffhausen

Mac, Lisa, Mark, Kathi, Chris, Boris, Charles, Bones

Riding through rolling hills and forests

This is the kind of riding Kathi really likes

Coffee stop at Konditorei - Café Roters Kerdraon

Stopped at a bakery called Konditorei for strudel and coffee.

Snack break

Canal Gondola Boat Ride in Colmar

Colmar is a picture perfect town in the Alsace region of France near Germany.

Statue de la Liberté, Colmar France

This Replica of the Statue of Liberty in Colmar is one of hundreds of replicas created worldwide.
The original Statue of Liberty, designed by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, is 151 feet tall and stands on a pedestal that is 154 feet tall, making the height of the entire sculpture 305 feet.
This one at the North entrance to the city of Colmar — the city of Bartholdi's birth — is 12 m (39 ft 4 in) or about 25% of the original.
It was dedicated on 4 July 2004, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bartholdi's death.
The Bartholdi Museum in Colmar contains numerous models of various sizes made by Bartholdi during the process of designing the statue.

Walking around the tiny, picturesque town of Ribeauville

Dinner at Restaurant Caveau de l'ami Fritz

Dinner at 7:30pm. Not too late and we get to sleep in tomorrow on the rest day, yay!

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