up at 7:15, getting everything cleaned up and in ship shape…9:01, we take the RE train from erlangen to nürnberg, then the IC train from nürnberg to stuttgart, switch there to the ICE to schaffhausen and then the S bahn train to mannenbach-saalenstein…we arrive on time in mannenbach-saalenstein

our hotel, the seehotel schiff, is literally just around the corner from the railway station and only a 3min walk. it’s located directly at the shore of the bodensee (“lake constance”) — and from our room at the top of the hotel we have a very nice view across to reichenau and across the lower bodensee to radolfzell.

the weather, having been quite nice so far this week in erlangen, has turned autumnal: fog, an occasional light drizzle. as we are just in time for tea we have the same.

dinner is in the hotel’s restaurant. we are seated in “second row” not at the windows (probably because we are showing up “late”, around 19:30). we take the captain’s dinner, an assortment of local and not-so-local fish, quite nice.