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On Sunday, we rented mountain bikes and took off from Valbella in the same direction as our hike on Saturday - after a small loop around Lantsch, we took the road up to the Piz Scalottas chairlift valley station, taking us and the bikes up to the top. From there, our downhill adventure began!

On our first day, we started out from the appartment, hiking alongside the "Heidsee" through Lenzerheide and down towards Lantsch/Lenz. From there, we started up the mountain towards "Alp Fops". Unfortunately, it started to rain there, so we got kind of soaked on our way home.

After we had some Tarte flambée for lunch, we decided to go on a boat tour in on the Rhine river around the Breisach port.

Sunday morning we took the train to around Breisach, walked around its small downtown area and then up the hill to its cathedral, from which one has a great view of the rhine valley and the surrounding mountains: The Black Forest on the German side and the Vosges Mountains in France.

In the afternoon, we went to a small wine village named Bickensohl and participated in a small guided tour through the local vineyards.

On Saturday morning, we took our cars to the French city of Colmar, where we walked through the old town and down to a quarter now called "little Venice" (la Petite Venise). After a small snack, we got some ice cream on our way back.

On our last full day, we took off in the morning from Dundee, heading north into Cairngorms National park. Crossing over a pass road, we descended towards Balmoral, the Queen's summer residence in Scotland.

Along the coastal route between the Firth of Forth (and its landmark railroad bridge) and the Firth of Tay (also with a railroad bridge with a story to it), we came past St. Andrews, home to the third oldest University in the English-speaking world (and where Prince William obtained a degree).