Black Forest

Most guided tours really get started after a healthy, filling breakfast in your home-style dwelling.  Don’t count on your
hosts to speak English so a little German learned beforehand will come in handy.  Your tour guide will bring the bikes and
helmets and, while some will bike with you, others will just give you a map—all in German.  Either way, soon you’ll be
sailing along a paved or dirt-packed trail, deep within the magnificent forest.

Perhaps you’ll be on one of the guided tours of the Neckar Valley or one of several other valleys in the great, untouched
forest.  Every few hours or so, you’ll reach a little village that will make you feel you’ve gone back in time.  Your
luggage will be transported to your next overnight location so you can enjoy the monasteries, breweries and little shops
with souvenirs you can pack in your backpack.  There’s at least one small, hometown restaurant in every village where the
food is cheap and authentically Bavarian. 

Back on your bikes, you can’t get lost because, if you’re not going downhill,you’re headed in the wrong direction.
Over a four to five day period of time, you’ll find yourself back in Offenburg where you’ll give up your bikes and perhaps
take a train ride over to Strasbourg for some French cuisine and more

The guided tours of the Black Forest often offer such a trip as a nice way to round out your tour.  In the end, you’ll have
seen a rare gem in the Black Forest of Germany and you’ll be more physically fit in the process.