Danube Bike Tour -Day 6

Date: May 13, 2015
Start: Krems
Stop: Tuln
Distance: 43 km
Weather: Cloudy morning and sunny afternoon
Summary in one sentence: Tour of Winzer Krems winery before dyke top riding to Tuln.  

The last day was a relatively short 26 km ride to the outskirts of Vienna where we dropped of the bikes and caught the public transit to our hotel downtown.

Danube Cycle Tour - Day 5

Date: May 12, 2015
Start: Melk
Stop: Krems
Distance: 42 km
Weather: Sunny and vey warm
Summary in one sentence: Nice mash up day of off bike activities and awesome cycling.

Danube Cycle Tour - Day 4

Date: May 11, 2015
Start: Grien
Stop: Melk
Distance: 51 km
Weather: Sunny and very warm
Summary in one sentence: Another beautiful day along the Danube.

Danube Cycle Tour - Day 3

Date: 10
Start: Linz
Stop: Grien
Distance: 64 km
Weather:  Mix of sun and clouds.  Warm.  Awesome tailwind
Summary in one sentence: Riverside dyke cycling with detours inland through pretty villages.

Elegant breakfast in Hotel Wolfinger.  Much of today cycling along river on dykes.  Strong tail wind oushed us to speeds of mid 20 kms / hr.  Managed to get a staple puncture - rental company did not provide repair kit claiming puncture proof tires.  Not so much.  With the goodness of other cyclists we eventually got going again.  Visited open air celtic village and rolled into Grien around 5 pm.  Superlative cycling day.

Danube Cycle Tour - Day 2

Date: May 9, 2015
Start: Inzell
Stop: Linz
Distance: 52 km
Weather: Cloudy, cool, light showers
Summary in one sentence: Spectacular first half of ride today on dedicated bike path along south bank. 

Off to a 9:00 start and directly onto the 20 km south bank bike route.  Just dreamy.  St the town of Aschach we stopped for lunch food which we consumed after crossing ferry at Ottensheim.  Rain showers until we reach Linz and crossing bridge back to south bank and our hotel Wolfinger.  Arrived at 2:15 pm. Cleaned up, explored Schloss and cathedral, happy hour drinks, fantastic Indian meal, more drinks at Irish pub and ice cream cones before finally calling it a day.

Danube Cycle Tour - Day 1

Date: May 8
Start: Passau
Stop:  Inzel
Distance: 49 km
Weather: Warm and sunny
Summary in one sentence:  First day om the famous Danube Cycleway delivers.

Breakfast in hotel then short walk to our bikw shop where we werrk fitted and sorted with our rental bikes.  Rode mostly the north bank quiet cycle path and when ventured sto south shore realized the unpleasantness of the shared road with busy traffic.  Lisa and Lynne yhrilled with finding a 'trachten clothes outlet shop and promptly purchased dirndl tops.  Crossed river four times - Passau road bridge, dam, road bridge and ferry.  Nice guest house where we enjoyed evening drinks and dinmer.  Bed by 9:30. 

Danube Cycle Tour - Getting to the Start

Date:  May 6, 2015
Start:  Vancouver, Canada
Stop:  Passau, Austria
Distance:  Many km
Weather: Cloudy and cool
Summary in one sentence:  A long multi modal day of travel.

Long day started with a ride to Vancouver airport leaving at noon for 4 pm flight  to Frankfurt.   Arrived 10:30 am and caught connector train  to main Frankfurt train station and from there a four hour train journey to Passau.  Reunited with Lynne and Clint at very good Wildermann Hotel at 6:00 .pm.  Tired and happy to br there!