Alsace North Part 2 07/07/2015

After vistiting the castle I headed to the Ouvrage Schoenenbourg. In the middle of the journey I found a tank in the side of the road and decided to stop to take a foto. It resulted that it was the Ouvrage du Four à Chaux. As it looked quite nice I decided to get inside.

The entrance was 7 € with a guide in French/German. I was pretty amazed the amount of information I could understand from the French explanations and really happy that I could even understand more from the German one. The guide gave plenty of information of the life-style inside the bunkers, contruction details and he even moved a turret.

Inside the Bunker the temperature was around 13 degrees so all the motorbike equipment was handy. Other tourist had to borrow clothes from the information office. They lend them for free, nice detail. The inside from the tunnel were a bit creppy. Large corridors, lots of doors going to extrange places and the omnipresent rails for the amunition transportation.

The visit took 2 hours and 30 minutes. Quite long mainly because of the explanations that were really detailed and needed to be done two times, one for each language. We entered using one human entrance and leaved using the door for the amunition transportation.

Soldiers entrance

Amunition entrance

After the trip I headed straight to Karlsruhe, I had to get there before 5.45 to do german classes. The trip back to Karlsruhe was also really good, nice curvy roads in good conditions. However it was hot as hell, around 40-42ºC, new experiences while riding my motorbike.