Day 20

Day 20, Wednesday June 22,

The sun was up bright and warm this morning when we commenced our ride at 8.45am. It was warm enough to just ride in singlet top and plenty of sunscreen! Unfortunately, it was also very humid which meant sweating profusely and needing to drink lots of water. Roads were good but wind was slightly against us. As Graeme mentioned yesterday my gears are not working well which leads to extra exertion and plenty of frustration on my part. We did stop at a MEGA bike shop (never seen so many new bikes together!) and luckily someone was prepared to have a look at the gears for me and ended up fixing the problem for now. Thank goodness, riding is a lot easier with gears functioning properly. Even though I had a smoother riding bike, it was not my day. I am feeling a bit challenged by riding these long distances and being in the saddle every day, as I mentioned a few days ago my tail bones don't like it and I have trouble sitting for long periods (on or off the bike). It is an old problem and I will try to work with it for the time being. We do take regular stops along the way. There is the morning coffee break, the lunch break and sometimes we have our main meal in the middle of the day (which makes at easier at night, particularly if we are in a small village with no restaurants or not many vegetarian choices) and today we had a snooze under a lovely shady tree next to the river. The surroundings look in part like our beautiful Adelaide Hills, soft rolling hills (all green)and a bit like a picture postcard from the movie the Sound of Music (meadows full of wild flowers)!

Today we rode 68km and if all goes well and we ride over 70km tomorrow we will reach Passau the last German town and enter the Austrian part of the Danube bike path!

A storm was predicted for this evening and whow, you must see the wind blowing and the rain teeming down, it is a bit wild and woolly out there!!! Hopefully the weather will have settled by the morning and my body well rested and prepared for some more riding! Graeme will likely fill you in tomorrow with all the interesting historical bits. Auf wiederschen for now1