DONAU - 2019 Black Forest to the Black Sea vacation

Day 1> first 13 km up up up from Triberg to Bregquelle & Martinskapelle, and rain pouring down. Great start (not). Then lots of downhill among cows, sheep goats and small cute churhes. 

First 55 km Ulm, checking out the huge cathedral, then continuing all afternoon and evening, leavning the river and taking google map advice on shortest bike distance. 1 km of this was on farm road beside a hey field quite bumpy but otherwise ok. Some gravel, some unpaved as every day, but mos…

Flat easy route. Up to Straubing I choose a non-Danube good countryside road and then almost entirely along the river. Got little lost in some gravel roads between farmed fields during the late afternoon and thought about using the tent for the first time, but at the end I ended up at "Halli u…

Found a bike shop in Linz opening already at 8 to fix the skope that broke 30 km before Linz yesterday. After breakfast at McDonalds (very localized Austrian menu!) I took off to Mauthausen, mostly known for its slave labour concentration camp, well worth a visit. It is a tough ascent up to the cam…

Pista ciclabile parzialmente separata al lato della strada!, parzialmente assente, ma il traffico era limitato, quindi nessun problema.   Divertente che ci fossero più cartelli del marchio di auto Audi qui (Audi ha una grande fabbrica di motori lì) che a Ingolstadt la settimana scorsa (o…