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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Leaving Linz you pass an old ironworks and a blast furnace that looks like it is about to be demolished – just like the ironworks were I started work at Renishaw and is now an executive home housing estate!<\/p>\n
Once again I was blessed with a few umleitungs & it was really funny seeing people take a multitude of ways before converging again. I ended up cycling across a grass field and up a rebuilt river defence. \u00a0The flood in the summer of 2002 \u00a0added at least 15 feet to the river level. and damaged a huge area. Although seeing the mark on a house here in Melk it was a baby flood compared to 1501 which was at least twice as high..<\/p>\n
I just love swooshing along these gorgeous paths all on my ownsome without a care in the world making snap decisions, going wrong, dragging the bike up banks and generally just enjoying myself. Although I think I need to stop eating so much ice cream..<\/p>\n
Tomorrow its Vienna and tonight I got a deal with Lastminute.com so I’ve booked a hotel for 3 nights \ud83d\ude42 Since it’s only 340km to Budapest from Vienna.<\/p>\n
Here’s the Strava<\/a> and pictures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \ud83d\ude42 Leaving Linz you pass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-danube-bike-trail","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}