Austria

2000 km Photo and Vienna

6 July 2010

Coming into Vienna we clocked 2000 km. There was a welcome sign to Vienna so we thought we would take a picture to mark the two occasions. || 1000km ago we had just left the Black Forest before meeting up with the Danube in Ulm. Since then it has been our loyal travel companion as we cycled through beautiful river side towns of Ingolstadt, Regensburg, Passau, Linz and Krems. Castles, monasteries and beer gardens were never far from site along our dedicated cycle path. Our favourite part was from Passau to Vienna where the…

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Via Danubia

27 June 2010

Ingolstadt – Linz Over the last week or so we have been following the scenic Danube cycle path through Southern Germany and into Austria. This is an extremely popular cycle path running from the source of the Danube in Donaueschingen, in the Black Forest, all the way to Vienna, and then onwards to the Black Sea, although after Vienna cyclists have to share the roads with cars. Germany has been a real luxury in that respect, as the last 700km of our tour have almost all been on bike paths. || Through…

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