With no biking yesterday we expected to wake early and be on our way in the cool of the day. I wonder if there actually was a cool of the day. We slept later than we thought... but still made the train to Vienna explore office before our 24 hour tickets expired.
I swapped bikes as mine had clicked and clunked since Passau.
Next we ran into road closures for the Vienna marathon.
Leaving Vienna was super challenging. ..keep the river on one side and head into the sun doesn't work when there are canals and islands and flood plains and dikes.
Aufwiedersen Vienna.
And then there was the "nature park"... the one on our right where everyone was wearing their birthday suits and one on our left with lots of trails and wetlands and board walks and cyclists. .. so that's where we thought we should be....
Ww met such a lot of kind people who tried to give us directions... too many directions at once... hours later, almost back at the nature park, we stopped for coffee and cake...
Then pedalled and pedalled with almost no photo stops...
Getting quite confused with the directions, but following other equally vague tourists... over a very long 2 km bridge. Another cyclist fell just ahead of us so Laura helped her while I rode ahead to let her group know... it was a very long bridge to walk!
It was getting later and we still had to negotiate cycling into a city... and a new country, so with one more fuel stop
We made the final charge into Bratislavia and the Botel Marina.
With views of the castle
And a superb goulash with dumplings and potato pancakes. ..
Tough day! - Ruth B
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