"we'll get there when we get there"

......to the the boat to the palace.  "Here's your tickets, the boat leaves in one minute" is what the ticket lady said with a German accent and pointed to the end of the dock after we had scrambled to lock our bikes to a post.  We had 20 seconds to spare after the 95k's it took to get there. 

Why were we late?  We had to go to Fucking Austria, the town of Fucking that is.  Don't believe me?  Look at a map north of Saltzburg, its just across the river from Tittmoning Germany.  Seriously.  But if you see the sign for the village called "Franking" you went past Fucking.  It was okay that we went too far because there was 20 seconds to spare in the end, 60k later.  Good thing we skipped the village of Petting (the German word for foreplay) cuz we just didn't have the time.  For some reason I can't stop laughing when I think the word "Franking" to myself.

The palace was built by a Bavarian king, Ludwig II, who was obsessed with the sun king (Louis 14th?).  Super fancy and we wern't allowed to take pictures.  Huge 300-500kg chandallers and excessivly extravagant furniture paintings, woodwork, and eveything made it too expensive to finish but the guy died anyway after he spent only 10 days living there.

We left the island palace a bit behind scedule (sun was getting low) but that was okay 'cause when we need to bust 25 in an hour after riding 100k its no trouble for us.  Now we're at Martin and Franziska's for the night just 200m from the place that the current Pope (Benidikt) lived as a child.

Franziska is Martin's girlfriend and works for Haltbare Bergbauern, a high quality dairy processor in Germany.  They make the best butter in Germany she claim's and my taste buds confim it as ture.  I was so excited when she started talking about CLA, wow!  Imagine, butter actually being marketed as healthy!  CLA is an acid found in butter from pastured animals and is probably the best food for your heart.  That's why I eat a kilo of butter a week.  "Ask your (american) doctor about" CLA and he won't have anything to say 'cause it ain't gonna make the chemist any money.