Home now for 5 weeks, the final post for our European cycle & visiting kin is long overdue. Apologies. In case you’re thinking we’re still lost in Hungary…. Revelling in […]

We arrived in the early afternoon after a short ride from Szentendre and were immediately struck by the size of the city. With almost 2 million people it contains 20% […]

Leaving Bratislava lead us to Hungary….eventually. Eventually because the bike guide had us ride on top of a dike for 30 km before crossing a dam, down more dikes before […]

Our Bratislava hotel was literally ON the Danube….as in what is called a “Botel”. We even had our own balcony which afforded us views of the river traffic, including decrepit […]

Our Wien/Vienna experience = Wiener schnitzel, Stephansdom, Hofburg Palaces, U-bahn, Prater, Vienna beach, beer, Strauss, wieners, giant Ferris wheel, baroque, Kaiser(s), Stadt Park, sekt, ring road trolley, gothic, Mozart, apricots […]

The Donau Radweg is generally divided into legs as follows: 1 = Germany (Donaueschingen to Passau), 2 = Austria (Passau to Wien), 3 = Slovakia/Hungary (Vienna to Budapest). This post […]

World Heritage City (Unesco) = Regensburg. Also the most northerly city on the Danube which reflects it,s significance as a Roman holding. We enjoyed a day off the bikes to […]

Goodbye to spaetzle & pils, and hello to knoedel & weizen. Corn fields lessening & hops & barley increasing. Beautiful terrain but some gruelling inclines as we travel from Ulm […]

2days cycling in dry weather, through cornfields, valleys, streams, and towns, including an overnight above a brewery in Zwiefaltendorf, we have a day off bikes in Ulm (200 km to […]

Another 53km between Nendingen (near Tuttlingen) to Sigmaringen. What is not mentioned in any guidebooks or on the blog reviews is that this section is extremely hilly -more like a […]