7km, (300km by train - A$17.50 each including the 5euro ticket for the bike) 12-21deg, cloudy with a little drizzle on the way to the train station. Rain while on the train. Cloudy but fine in Stuttgart. Today we jumped on the train to Stuttgart so that we can avoid going over the same ground and to get across to the Rhein River (west) for more great cycling. We left the hotel about 8am after brekkie for a 15 minute ride to the Main Station. Had plenty of time be...

33km, 13-27deg, fine and mostly sunny. The brekkies at these big hotel chains (Ibis in this case) are very substantial and it takes a fair amount of willpower to choose wisely. The Germans like their cold meats, cheeses, breads, jams, spreads and sweet pastries, in addition there's all the English style stuff like cereal, yoghurt, bacon, sausages, eggs, potato cakes, etc. It's okay if you're riding 80-100kms a day, but for rest days it's a bit much. So after some...

10km, 12 - 21deg, fine and mostly sunny. Luckily Regensburg was not bombed during WWII so it has a wonderful array of old buildings and sights; 1,400 "listed" buildings of significance in fact. The city centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It dates back to the Stone Ages and the Romans built a fort here in the 1st century. So today we explored as much as we could. Unfortunately the most famous sight, the old (10th century) bridge, was mostly covered up as it i...

79km, 9-22deg, mostly cloudy, no rain, although there were some ominous looking clouds skirting around us. A 6:30am brekkie allowed us to get away right on schedule at 8am. Within a 100m we were on the Danube Cycle Route and heading northish. It was good to see the boat traffic coming and going on the river; cruise boats, day trippers and barges carrying all sorts of cargo. Our first rest stop was 20km out near a neat little bike/pedestrian ferry crossing point. ...