Day 4 has a distinctly Bavarian feel to it. The ride from Memmingen to Munich is not built around big drama, but around movement, appetite and anticipation. You roll through tidy villages, past fields, farmhouses and church towers, with that rare sense that the whole day is clicking into place. The climbs stay short. A few small waves, one slightly longer pull – enough to stop the stage feeling flat, but never enough to take away its ease. What really grows as the kilometres pass is your appetite: for that first cold beer and an evening meal in a Munich beer garden.
