After an early morning (7am) walk along the shore of Lake Lipno. Decided to have breakfast in the town. But, as nothing opened until 11(!), we headed off on empty stomachs. Not a problem. But, before that, I noticed that Jackie’s back tyre was low so I decided to change the tube. Whilst I was doing this, she asked if there was anything she could do to help. I told her she could check the tyre pressures on my bike. The next minute she told me that she’d brok...

Slavonice to Frymburk, 134km - (Frymburk, another border town). The good news - Jackie’s feeling well again. 6.30am. Had a walk around the little town whilst waiting for breakfast to start (we needed to be away as early as possible). A good hotel breakfast was served in the Arkáda Hotel Slavonice, although we had to share the dining room with around 20, high-testosterone, guys from a Czech Harley-Davison motorcycle ‘chapter’ who were, by definition, ra...

Reached Slavonice (7.30pm), after a long day battling into a fierce headwind and along a trail was, at times, no more than tracks through fields. 120k covered. Will update blog later... . . Update, Jackie wasn’t feeling too well last night. Probably due to the high temperature, direct sun and lack of water (despite drinking 7 x 750ml bidons-full). So, today was a tad testing for her, particularly the last 30 miles or so. For sure, it was a long day - most...

Our first day’s cycling didn’t quite go to plan. We had about 120k to go to our destination, Mikulov. So who’d have thought that by 1130am we were still in Vienna: in a bike workshop! We’d only just started when Jackie’s, newly-serviced bike started to play up. The new chain was crunching on the sprockets every time she put a lot of pressure on the pedals and the back disc brake stopped working altogether. So we found a bike workshop - but they were fu...

Arrived Vienna airport at around 5pm. Took about half an hour for the bike boxes to appear and another half hour to reassemble them and get going. Vienna airport is unusual in that Arrival and Departure passengers share the same space. It was 12k to the hotel that we’d prebooked; the Arion Airport Hotel. Checked in, quick beer then off to look for some food. There was a bit of rain in the air but it didn’t come to much. Quite warm tho. Not a lot going o...