It's not how fast you can go sonny, it's how long you can go fast. Around corners and down hills Sandra rides terribly slowly. I usually tear past and mutter something about wasting the corner. Well yesterday she got to have the last laugh. There is a very long, steep decline as you leave Melk toward the east. As the path descends through the bush to the river bank below, there is a hairpin left hand bend. All was going normally, I had passed Sandi, shifted my ...

We're in Melk and I thought I'd share the view from our dinner table with you. Yesterday we spent half the day wandering around Linz before pedaling off Into a stiff headwind. The wind became stronger and our pedaling became weaker as we faced the heat of the day which here peaks about 4.00 pm. Nevertheless we made about 80 km for the afternoon. Furthermore Sandi is now very adept at slipstreaming. Yesterday we seemed to be passing through an even more beautifu...

Hello from Linz, Austria. I have now ridden my bicycle approximately 250 km across Europe and am feeling tired this morning. If i sit here and blog I don't have to ride so here goes. The Danube has a very smooth bike path most of the way and the views along and from the valley are green and beautiful. We camped the first night in Austria at a dairy farm with a hydro electric generator next door. During the night A Wind storm caused a tree to fall on their Goat pe...

In the end I did manage to reassemble my bicycle. It took about 25km for everything to 'settle in' again but it is going OK. In fact it's going very well, I have now ridden it accross about 160 km of Bavaria. I was pretty sleepy when I left Munich airport and nearly ran over the first people I met on the shared walk/ride path near the hotel. It's a strange feeling when you veer left to avoid people and they deliberately go right towards a collision. It's usually ...

Good morning from sunny Munchen! I never really look forward to flying long distance, so glad I'm here now and don't have to fly for a couple of weeks. The photo shows me in the shed at home stressing over packing the bikes - eventually had to get a bigger box for that one. I had to pack the 12kg bike into a 2kg box, along with accessories etc, and end up with a package not exceeding 20kg. I thought it was not likely but was very proud when i put my bike box on t...