Category: Danube
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Four ferries in one day as we crisscross the Danube!
Our day started with thinking of our first ferry. It being Sunday, the first ferry was at 9:30 AM, so we timed our morning so that we would arrive after it started running. It was the same ferry that we took to our campground the previous evening, so we knew what to do. Our site…
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In Austria! We’ve crossed Germany!
Today, we crossed into Austria! We’ve entered the last phase of our trip, with less than 2 weeks left. It’s kind of amazing to think that we’ll be in Bratislava in only a few days. It’s a big, ah… change to stay in a 4-level apartment with its own elevator and then begin camping again…
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Four luxurious nights in Regensburg
Our friend Jane from Liverpool is coming down to Regensburg to spend a few days with us, so we rented a nice apartment. We spent a month in her place in Tenerife so we wanted her to have a cool place to hang out with us. The apartment ended being even better than we expected!…
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On to Regensburg, via boat?
It’s about 70 miles from Neuberg an der Danau where we stayed a couple nights ago to Regensburg where we are this evening. In the middle, we stopped in Neustadt an der Danau, in one of the cleanest campsites we have yet encountered, taking the clean crown from a Swiss campsite near Lake Constance. And…
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Bee and wasp stings…but still moving. And Ulm was great!
Yesterday, Chris got a bee stuck in her helmet strap while riding along at a good clip and it stung the back of her ear lobe. Ouch!!! (I know exactly where it was since I pulled the stinger out with my fingernails.) In the ensuing frenzy to get the bee out and stop the pain,…
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A beautiful first day on the Danube
Today was amazing. As we left in the cool of the morning, we were immediately flanked by limestone cliffs and outcroppings. Keep in mind that’s a good deal of our riding to date has been pretty flat terrain or rolling but not with any canyons to cycle through. The trail today first meandered in the…