{"id":11646,"date":"2013-09-15T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=11646"},"modified":"2013-09-15T12:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:20:59","slug":"danube-bike-trail-day-10-riding-vienna-to-bratislava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=11646","title":{"rendered":"Danube Bike Trail, Day 10 Riding – Vienna to Bratislava"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stunning<\/a>I woke up to pouring rain, so luckily it wasn’t an early start. By the time i had to leave to collect my bike from the repairers the rain had eased off a little.<\/p>\n

Excellent news on reaching Bike7, the bike was all fixed the shop owner, in jest (I think) offered for me to run the shop whilst he pedalled around Europe \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It now looks as if the the Wahoo SC cadence\/speed bluetooth device is kaputt, I replaced the battery but all to no avail, so that was a 5 minute wonder \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Bit of a nightmare leaving Vienna through crowded pedestrian areas over slippery cobbles & tram tracks, imagining bent wheels. I eventually made it over the canal & river bridges and onto the cycleway, which was so smooth and so glorious I missed the turning and ended up at a dead end then having to cycle a couple of miles back and \u00a0go through the forest of petrol\/JET fuel holders to reach the main path into the National Park helped by a glorious tail wind \ud83d\ude42 & just a few heavy showers to contend with.<\/p>\n

\"Derelict<\/a>I eventually made it to the derelict border post, which is what our border posts would be like, if only the UK had signed up to the \u00a0Schengen \u00a0Agreement<\/a>, it always seems to be that the UK opts out of anything that would make life simpler.<\/p>\n

Then it was over the huge, but very shaky bridge into Bratislava. I totally forgot about lack of internet been so used to free roaming on 3 in Austria so didn’t use AroundMe. However, The Hotel Devin loomed in front of me, a real **** place, after a bit of negotiation I got a magnificent \u00a0room for \u20ac80 which in some places in the UK gets you a b&b. This place has a Spa Centre with affordable massages and the most incredible breakfast to date & to top it all free WiFi with 3MB upload rates \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The weather looks good today so I will explore Bratislava with one of Emily’s au-pairs from 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

In all the messing about with the cadence device I forgot to switch on Strava. But the etrex recorded this track.<\/p>\n

\"vienna_to_bratislava\"<\/a><\/p>\n

adding another 52 miles to make a \u00a0total of 1,674 miles biked of which 649 miles is along The Danube.<\/p>\n

 
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