I just don't understand why people bother to have curtains at all when they let light in cos they are white. Awake at the crack of dawn due to light entering room and also cos I'm in the centre. Didn't know what to do with myself knowing that I didn't have to get on my bike today. No breakfast included in this place so first stop Starbucks on the street corner, couldn't resist. After a large cappuccino and a cinnamon roll I felt more awake. I had googled bike sh...

Soooooo comfortable in bed that I didn't want to get up. After a wonderful breakfast I packed up my gear and set off on my last day of Stage 2 through Austria. It was a wonderful day in the fact that the sun was behind clouds and their was a cooler air. It gets a bit tiring biking in heat all day so I reveled in the overcast day. The route once again was beautiful, this really is the best part of the Danube so far; the river is stunning and the path is flat and p...

Thunder again during the night. Woke up in my dive of a gasthof too early as usual. I was a bit dubious about the awaiting breakfast as from the outside the gasthof looked closed down and the inside smelt as if someone had died. Anyway, I went down to breakfast just to show my face and hoping that I wasn't going to come away with some gastric disease that would bring my biking to a halt. It was a sunny day. Before I set off on my bike I went in search of a baker...

Finally a goooood night's sleep. I woke up well rested and hungry so I headed on straight down to breakfast. A great breakfast was provided, just love the cherry jam here. I packed up my stuff and went downs to load up my bike. Waiting to start their journey down to Vienna were a group of tourists from Australia. They are doing it the easy way. They bike 30km without bags and then arrive at their next gasthof to find their luggage waiting for them. It's gonna tak...