Back to civilization ... and Plan C!!

Had a very interesting few days just flirting with the edge of the Black Forest ... so I suppose it only counts as being the 'Dark Grey Forest' really. On the way from the Rhine I passed some amazing wetland areas ... saw a pair of grebes, coots, moorhens, swans, loads of geese herons, some sort of egret, storks and a big bird of prey (eagle or buzzard of some kind). I was able to get as close as Bolton going down, before it spread its wings and flew off. In the forest the only thing I saw were little birds I cant recognise, another one of the big bird of prey jobbies ... and a deer that jumped out onto the track, stopped and looked at me as if to say 'what the hell are you looking at' then jumped off.
Now, I've eventually emerged and made my way to Heidelberg, and booked into a hostel bunk room (so you'll probably never hear from me again!)
And so to unveil "Plan C". I've decided to go back to the Rhine and follow it all the way down to Basel in Switzerland ... then make my way back up to the source of the Nekkar and follow it back down to Esslingen in a nice big loop. It should take quite a few weeks altogether. Then, depending on the time I can either follow the river Fils to Ulm direct, or get the train to Donnaushingen and do the first 200km of the Danube down to Ulm ... simples !!
The weather has been pretty poor the last couple of days with some heavy rain. Went to see Worms which is supposed to be beautiful ... wasn't impressed though ... and it poured down on the way back!