Our first rest day – no driving, no statistics!
After deciding to postpone our run due to heavy rain, we leisurely attended breakfast for the first time at the Riva. What an incredible spread! The highlights were the tiny Le Creuset pots with sauté potatoes and fried egg without white inside, the real honeycomb loaded with honey, and some kind of Danish pastry with raspberries with almonds. The selection also included sweets and bags, presumably for the kids, though the adults were helping themselves.
Once fed we had a wander round the hotel to figure out what we’d do during our rest day. It really was a splendid hotel, and exactly the kind we like.
We needed exercise, so decided to head out for a walk in the pouring rain and high winds – full waterproofs were deployed. Once out it didn’t seem so bad, and we followed a guided tour route through the old part of Konstanz we found on Trip Advisor. Unfortunately we had no idea what any of the stops were, other than usually old buildings or statues. We also stopped off in a few shops to warm up, and for coffee and cake – though the coffee wasn’t, and we had no idea what it was (the lady who served said it was “like” coffee – I’m not sure her definition of like is the same as mine).
Once back in the hotel we enjoyed the saunas (very hot and dry, then hot and slightly humid, then warm and 100% humidity), followed by ice (Jo more than me), then a salt rub and shower, and finally the relaxation room. Jo read, I got up to date on my mobile game Tacticus (don’t ask). Jo then found the rooftop outdoor swimming pool, and before I could join her she’d got out complaining 30 degrees Celsius was too cold.
We decided dinner out of the hotel at a local German establishment – we shared an excellent soup with the cheesiest cheese dumpling imaginable, followed by pork shank with dumpling and gravy (no vegetables) and char (fish) on a heap of vegetables. And weissbier (wheat beer). Rest day done.
