travel blog
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The ride from Cambridge to Vienna
On this very wet morning here in Vienna whilst waiting for my bike to have it’s third spoke replaced I thought it would be good to update my map to date. Here is what Adze has done with my etrex gps data: a rather pretty map with each day of cycling in a different colour.…
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Danube Bike Trail Day 9 – Melk to Vienna
Thankfully the overnight rain had stopped although the temperature is really dropping now & I had my first white fingers of the tour. I did the 76 miles from Melk to Vienna staring with a climb out of Melk before a steep descent back onto the Danube which today was squashed between hillsides covered in…
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Danube Bike Trail Day 8 – Linz to Melk
Another really excellent 72 mile ride on a gorgeous day. Starting off on the left hand bank then cunningly in Grein using the small ferry to switch to the right hand bank and thus miss all the traffic & noise from the busy road in exchange for tranquility & bliss 🙂 Leaving Linz you pass…
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Danube Bike Trail Day 7 – Passau to Linz
Another excellent days biking and 64 miles on the clock, making it 719km cycled along The Danube in the first week. I make that 25% of the total Danube distance. Today was a terrific day apart from the last 7km, maybe it would have been better to cross onto the right bank over the locks…
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Danube Bike Trail Day 6 – Tegernheim to Passau
Well that’s all 595km of Book 1 done and dusted! that only leaves books 2 (320km), 3 (340km) & 4 (1600km) to do or 2260km (1412miles) left on The Danube. Interestingly I’ve already biked 2338km, so about half way from Cambridge to the Black Sea, the long way around , not the direct route. Today…
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Danube bike trail Day5 Ingolstadt to Tegernheim
An excellent days cycling . Mainly on gravel paths along the bank of The Danube , the days highlights including a pendulum ferry across to Eining, a ride on a motorised punt through the amazing Jura limestone gorge at Weltenburg and for something totally different listening to a group of guys singing Schubert in Weltenburg…
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Danube bike trail Daay 4 – Schwenningen to Ingolstadt
With great difficulty I left my bed at 8am to enjoy the breakfast. The Schloss Kaltneck in Schwenningen is probably the best bargain of all time, when I left the final bill was €60,60 including €6.38 of taxes. That was for b&b, two course sumptuous dinner and a litre of beer. You don’t get that on…
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Danube Bike Trail Day 3 Ulm to Schwenningen
Today was a late starter after a late night on the computer and a totally yummy breakfast at the Leo Mar Hotel. I decided to experiment returning my PET bottle, all you do is put the bottle in a machine that scans & if it is PET crushes it and gives you a 25cent printout against your…
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Danube bike trail Day 2 – Gutenstein to Ulm
I slept incredibly well & long at the Landgasthof Bahnhof -with no WiFi to detract me 🙂 and left quite early after a good breakfast, Total bill for full board including beers at €51.86 who says Germany is expensive? This morning had a real chill in the air. After reaching Sigmaringen I was pleased I had…
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Danube bike trail Day 1 – Donaueschingen to Gutenstein
A late start today as I was busy trying to break the German PAYG SIM card cartel, every operator offered an identical 200MB for €20 so it is marginal with 3’s £5 a day offer. However, remembering Euan’s shenanigans with 3 in France I opted to go with Vodafone. Disappoingly I now find their network…