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 restraint (but not much) we were refueled for today's activities. Firstly Kate organized a ride to Walhalla, a huge hall in Classic Greek style built by King Ludwig in the early 1800 overlooking the Danube to honour famous German people; 2,000 of them to date, but there's room for more. The hall contains busts and plaques about each one, some are familiar, most were not known to us. We recognised Mozart, Wagner, Bach, Reubens, etc. From the bike path on the Danube it's an imposing sight, you could easily think you were in Athens looking up at the Parthenon. It's quite a climb to reach the first of the many steps that lead to the hall. The marble walls, floor, busts, statues and even chairs are all stunning. The 20km round trip was well worth every metre. After a freebee tea/coffee and lunch back at the hotel we caught our bikes into the city for some more touristy stuff. On our way to the History Museum we chanced upon an Electric Bus on display that the local govt plans to introduce into the city centre. A lovely young lady who spoke very good English explained to us that it goes 75km on a charge and it take six minutes to recharge its batteries. It can plug in to normal power or use the electric train overhead wires as an arm on the roof can reach up. Very clever technology. The young lady had recently spent 6 months in Oz backpacking and working. She said the work, packing mangos, was hard. The History Museum traced the occupation of this area back to the Stone Ages, then covered the Roman influence and the development of the city. The displays were very well done and maintained but only a small part was described over the audio aids in English. The rest you had to guess or use Gunther our Official Interpreter. The museum building was joined to an 12th century church (decommissioned) which made it a very interesting feature. Looking at the ex-church setup and reading some signs we deduced that they use it for classical music shows. None of the dates matched our stay so we missed out on a performance which is a pity. Because we rode soooo far today (all of 33km) we told ourselves that we deserved an icecream. We didn't have to go far; in The Mall not far away was "Icecream Paradise". It was nice to sit on their chairs and chat, relax and people-watch. On the way back to the hotel we picked up half a roast chicken, two ready made salads and a bottle of plonk for a planned BYO dinner tonight on the banks of our canal. We ended up sitting at a hotel table and chairs under a tree in a secluded part of their garden to eat our dinner and drink the wine. It turned out a wonderful night, fine and calm, 22deg. Dinner, including the chicken, salad and wine, was A$6.40 each. Sometimes the best things in life are free; or close to it.