We are metering out our daily distances to arrive in Regensburg on Monday, August 8th. Our good friend Jane is coming down from Liverpool to spend a few days with us along the route, so we rented a nice apartment for 3 nights.
It’s rained a bit overnight and temperatures have cooled significantly, to the extent we discuss long pants for the first time in months. We are in no hurry to get going until things warm a bit, as we are only riding 25 miles.
Neuburg (pronounced Nye-burg) is a little jewel of a town on the Danube, we are told by a couple we encountered on the route, and it fits into our schedule.
The crops at the side of the road are changing. We pass seemingly miles of turnips, potatoes and the ever present corn.
Once we arrive in Neuburg, we get some coffee and cake (new habit!) and then watch about 200 young people floating down the Danube, to much applause. We have no idea exactly what the event is but it seems like hundreds if not thousands of people have come to watch.
One thing that has been intriguing me is the number of onion domed churches in Germany. I associate onion domes with mosques mostly, but these churches are all Christian. Some research later…seems inconclusive exactly why there are so many onion domes churches in Germany but various theories are out there!
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