Schallemmersdorf, Aggsbach Markt, Groisbach, Schwallenbach, Spitz,

What we do is write a cheat sheet or list of towns that we will go through on our way to each days destination to minimise map rereading at every corner... because for most of today we simply rolled out of one burg and into the next...

Following the most picturesque paths...

Groisbach.... and each little dorf is cuter than the last.

Each with a church...

flowers...

All around, white blossomed apricot trees showered us with petals...

Found in a neolithic excavation site, the 28000 year old Venus of Willendorf... this is a copy... the original is only 11 cm tall...

And food...

Warm Apricot kuche (cake) well we had to try it after all the apricot orchards we'd been through!
Although we have really enjoyed all the food...especially cake and coffee... we have noted an alarming absence of green leafy or any sort of vege. A glorious ten minutes in the supermarket resulted in this culinary delight...

Low carb sandwich. ..lettuce wrapped around cheese, tomato and pepper.
And for those of you concerned about us losing too much weight...

There is always the third food group... ice cream.
This was in the historic city of Krems where the architecture went from this

To this...

Krems was where we started to struggle with the heat, lack of coffee, cobbled streets, navigation, our first unpaved path and then a complete disappearance of signage...
Well we were lost...and going the wrong way. ..so we backtracked. .. asked some farmers... much discussion. .. very little of it in English. .. and we were off again finally carrying bikes up a super steep staircase onto a bridge, connecting us over a ditch to the bank of the Danube.
It was easy pedaling but we were already tired and still had a way to go before bed.

This unexpected 'truck stop' coffee got us going. Then just as we arrived in Zwentendorf we saw a pub. Dinner... goulash of course, and the waiter even phoned our accommodation to say we were still coming.

Goulash at our favourite riverside pub.

Stats
76 km
Total :203km
Steps: 6552