{"id":11629,"date":"2013-09-12T20:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2013-09-12T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T19:26:59","slug":"danube-bike-trail-day-9-melk-to-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11629","title":{"rendered":"Danube Bike Trail Day 9 – Melk to Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0which today was squashed between hillsides covered in vines and fields of orchards. All very pretty and as a reminder that the Danube is not always so placid all the villages were surrounded by 1 metre high concrete wallls with spaces to slot in metal barriers when the river rises.<\/p>\n

\"Water<\/a>One of the hydroelectric plants had displayed a water turbine housing, enormous just look how tiddly my bike looks! Bit see the power it generates . 39,000 kW from a 14 metre head of water! There were two more coal\/oil power stations closed down as well. With one of them proudly displaying on a LED display its solar generation capacity, it was \u00a0showing 84kW or 0.2% of the water turbine!<\/p>\n

I saw several cruise ships mainly going up river, none seemed very busy, so I guess the season must have ended.<\/p>\n

I eventually reached Vienna making \u00a0me 1\/3 of the way down the Danube, I passed the 2,000km to The Black Sea marker today.<\/p>\n

I think the battery on my Wahoo bluetooth cadence sensor has packed up so the Strava data is now limited to GPS & the heart rate monitor.<\/p>\n

\"Strava_Ride___Melk_to_Vienna-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The pics are here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Today after biking 2,678km I have given myself a couple of days off in Vienna, although I confess to doing a lot of sleeping today. in The Hotel Anatol<\/p>\n

However, I did go out and buy some new Adipure V22625 l<\/a>ightweight running shoes to replace the Saucony ones. Laufsport<\/a> is totally dedicated to running situated on the first floor with only a discrete door & bell it was a world away from any UK high street sports place!<\/p>\n

I also took a look at \u00a0the Hammam but it was ridiculously expensive so I will wait to Budapest or maybe Bratislava.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0which today was squashed between hillsides covered in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-danube-bike-trail","category-personal","category-travel-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","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=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}