Day 15 - Down the Danube

We left Hagelberg at 9.30am and travelled by train from Steinen to Donaue-Eschinger (the beginning place of the Danube) where we arrived at 12.30. We went to the info bureau, did the shopping for lunch, bought the travel guide and left for the first part of this journey.

The first impressions of the ride proved very favourable. The area, while still densely populated, has none of the major industry we saw on the Rhine. This made cycling much more pleasurable with the path often close to the river and then through meadows of wild flowers. The Danube is still quite small here – more like a stream.

We cycled through small villages with Tudor-style buildings and the weather remained humid but sunny – all-in-all a great cycling time.

We stopped at 5pm at Muhlheim an de Donau just in time before it started raining. We have nice accommodation in the older historic part of town. Spacious room with great views but we did have to climb 3 lots of steep stairs to get to the room, anyhow it is worth it as we are very comfortable here.

After showering time to find out where to find a decent meal. We ended up at a local restaurant which served solid German meals (Bratwurst and Sauerkraut were on the menu) and for us Vegetarians that meant German noodles and a small salad. The salads here are always great and the noodles were alright as well although rather stodgy and full of cheese! We managed to eat a good third of the noodles but had to leave the rest as it was more than either of us could eat even after a good afternoon's of cycling! It is still raining softly and that may be the forecast for tomorrow as well but we will see. We are now sitting in our room where I have made some time to write up the last few days activities and adventures.