Wednesday, 3rd August : Wetteren-Passau |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 4.15 am | 5 am | 5.06 am : ready to go! | First stop | Coffee break |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Rastplatz Weisenkirchen Germany | Lunchtime | Passau Germany | Hotel Am Jesuitenschlossl | Exploring the environment |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Linda an der Donau | A bit cloudy | We have to leave the car here | Well, it's very close to the hotel | Ready to go to sleep |
 |
|
Nite nite! |
Thursday, 4th August : Passau-Schlögen |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 8.45 | Our adventure starts here! | The Inn | Lindau?? | No! Linda!! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Lorelei | Lorelei with Marianne | Lorelei with Linda | Obernzell | Town hall |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The sun's trying... | Danube with helmet | Powerful river! | Very impressive! | Now, what have we here? |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| We enter Austria! | The Ferry | Cruising | On the ferry | Crossing the Danube |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Schlögen | Great view | Balcony with flowers | Apfelstrudel mit Schlagobers | Palatschinken mit Marillenmarmelade |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Das schmeckt! | Bikes for hire | Faeces remover??? | For mobile homes!!! | Donauschlinge |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Famous Danube Curve | Changing its course southeast | Close-up of the ferry | A lot wider than our Schelde | Two hungry Belgians |
 |
 |
 |
| I'm reading and sis is writing | Pretty colours | Night sky |
Friday, 5th August : Schlögen-Linz |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Weather's looking good | Fantastic! | Everyone's still asleep | Peaceful, isn't it? | Rode 31.4 miles yesterday |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Brekkie!! | 8.21 : ready to leave | Gorgeous weather | An otter? | Or is it a beaver? |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Schloß Neuhaus with Räuberturm.. | ...from where the Danube could be "closed" with a chain | Old and new signposting | Only 1km to Aschach | Danube Promenade |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The local swing | Swan lake! | Aschach in the sun | Don't you spot any blue? | Looking back |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Brandstatt | "Mud Lise" along the Fishlehrpath | The monastery garden of Wilhering | Pretty flowers | Close-up |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Wilhering... | ...Monastery | Morning Glory!! | Car ferry... | ...in Ottensheim |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The 3 Graces (or is that 4?) | Almost there | Ottensheim | Ready to party | Road to Linz |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Nibelingenbrücke in Linz | Just what I needed! | Flohmarkt | Plague Pillar | Hauptplatz Linz |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Hauptplatz Linz | Linz | 43 miles today | Self-portrait.. | ..in mirror |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| We have a bath!!! | Dinner | in | restaurant | Mondigo |
Saturday, 6th August : Linz-Persenbeug |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| St Florian.. | ..at last! | St Florian Stift | Cemetry | Inner court |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Paper flowers | Enns, eldest town of Austria | Closer | Stadtturm | One tea and one hot cocoa |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Still life with bikes | Shopping streets | Pee stop | Mauthausen | Flag-waving for ferry |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Calling the ferry | Er ... waving that is | There it is! | Concentrationcamp Mauthausen | Memorial column |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Barbed wire | Lots of it | Lots of cyclists here | Memorial | Bulgarian Memorial |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Memorial | Memorial | Slovenian Memorial | The Belgian Memorial | Memorial |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Memorial | Italian.. | ..Memorial Wall | Entry | Memorial.. |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ..along the road | Lunch break! | The Austrian Tex | Weird cyclists | Hey! That's ... |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ...my sister's... | ...helmet! | Power Station Wallsee-Mitterkirchen | Ein großes Bier.. | ..in Mitterkirchen |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Radler Tankstelle | Still having troubles.. | ..with the self-timer | Oh oh! End of civilization! | Radiant sun |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| On our way to Persenbeug | Grein | 62 miles today! | An average of 11 miles per hour! Not bad! | Bed literature |
Sunday, 7th August : Persenbeug-Spitz |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Leaving... | ...Persenbeug | Room for one more bike | Warning for my sister! | Highwater-levels through the ages |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Oh oh! | It's raining! | Maria Taferl | Schloss Leiben? | Pöchlarn |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Pöchlarn | This isn't graffiti | Abbey of Melk | Yes!! | Apfelstrudel! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Melk | Benediktiner Stift Melk | Climbing the stairs | Quite | a lot |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
| of | activity | here | The green room | Wisdom? |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The mirror room | Listening to the guide | Spinning replica.. | ..of the abbey | Dancing .. |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| ..on the ceiling | Melk | Library | Silence, please | Reader in library |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The church | Keep quiet, please! | Courtyard | Big foot in courtyard | And the clock stroke 12! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Belgian female in Melk gallery | Garden Pavillion | Click to hear the choir | Cute windchimes | Cycle safes |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| We leave Melk | Stairs to the Venus of Willendorf | Replica of the Venus on a large scale | The real one measures only 11cm | Kitty |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The other Venus was watching the bikes | Some | more | information | Vineyards in the Wachau |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Walchauer Hof Hotel Spitz | 33 miles | Average of 10.5 | High-water level of 2002 | The church of Spitz |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Gasthaus Mariandl | Vineyards | for | Grüner | Veltliner |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Oh oh! Dark clouds! | Better hurry back | Later that evening | As in Wetteren : The old post office |
Monday, 8th August : Spitz-Tulln |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Leaving Spitz | Bye Hotel Wachauerhof | The famous .. | .. Mariandl hotel | St Michael |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| More vineyards | Cyclists dismount, please | Dürnstein | The former Augustinian Abbey | Courtyard |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Church Tower | Close-up | Back to the main street | The "Blue" Danube | Tea break for cyclists |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Tulln | Nibelungenplatz | Nibelungen scene | Other angle | The rat |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Some explanation | The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius | 46 miles today | Routeplanner | Pouring .. but .. we're inside!! |
Tuesday, 9th August : Tulln-Wien |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Family tour or racing cyclist tour? | Klosterneuburg Hauptplatz | Stift Klosterneuburg | Museum entrance | We stayed outside |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Up to Vienna | Take-away bikes in Vienna | At a charge of course! | St Francis of Assisi Church Vienna | Right of the Donauinsel |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Left of the Donauinsel | Ferris Wheel Prater | The Lusthaus, former imperial lodge | 3 blondes | Cycling route through the Prater Park |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Sunbathing | on the Danube Channel Beach | City Hall | Entrance to Hofburg | Art-historical museum |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Parliament | Burgtheater | Hunderwasserarchitecture | 42 miles today | Rode 2252 miles since I bought my bike |
 |
 |
| A toast to .. | .. my sister's new grandson Brent! |
Wednesday, 10th August : Extra day in Vienna |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Liechtenstein Museum | Somewhere in Vienna | Ladies | Another nice building | Servitenkirche |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| St Stephan's Dom | Very impressive | Lots of old buildings | See the ... | ... bright blue sky? |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Hofburg | Gorgeous... | ...weather! | City Hall | Other angle |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| City Park | Belgian statue | More .. | .. St Stephan | Bridge over the Wien |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
| Are we lost? | Of course not! | Here's the ... | Hundertwasserhaus | Faxi!! |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Sign | Poster | Observatory Urania | Sunbathers Beach | Dinner in our room |
Thursday, 11th August : Back to Passau |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 7.59 : waiting for the bus | Schlögen, almost there! | Only 2 bikes on the trailer | Ours! | Back in Passau |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Nice room! | Passau in the sun | From Passau to Vienna, yep, we made it! | One of Passau's churches | Our Bed and Bike Hotel |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Real summer! | Linda an der Inn | Last bike ride.. | .. in Passau | Art Exhibition |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| by | Heinrich Kirchner | Last pictures.. | .. of Passau |
Friday, 12th August : Back to Wetteren |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| 8.23 : ready to leave | 15.38 : last stop | 19.02 : back home | Welcome home meal by Chef Werner! |
