DAY TEN… 41.5 miles (66 km) No rain last night. Just a bit noisy from passing boats on the river, and from the nearby airport (across the bridge) but, apart…
DAY 09… Straubing to Vilshofen
DAY NINE… 45.5 miles (73 km) A good night. The “orange boys”, some laddish cyclists that have been following in our tracks, turned up and were a bit rowdy, but…
DAY 08… Kelheim to Straubing
DAY EIGHT… 55 miles (88 km) Rain came in bursts last night and we were told that we could expect another one or two days of rain, but this morning…
DAY 07… Vohburg to Kelheim
DAY SEVEN… 22.25 miles (35.5 km) A Half Rest Day Today is a rest half-day. It is a beautiful day. And I had a reasonable night’s sleep, at last !!…
DAY 06… Altisheim to Vohburg
DAY SIX… 50 miles (80 km) Rose 6.30am to wet tents and mists but beautiful. A swan rose from the water, really heaving itself. We’ve had to ration water, so…
DAY 05… Leipheim to Altisheim
DAY FIVE… 55 miles (88 km) Sitting, now 10.15am, on the banks of a much wider Danube. Flat route so far, but a gravelly surface along the side of the…
DAY 04… Rottenacker to Leipheim
DAY FOUR… 48 miles (77 km) Lovely ride through Ulm, with an amazing Munster. We had a long stop here to try and find bits of clip that Tim had…
DAY 03… Hausen im Tal to Rottenacker
DAY THREE… 53 miles (85 km) Sitting outside our tents as the sun sets on a little chair with salmon bubbling on the little cooker in front of me. We…
DAY 02… Donaueschingen to Hausen im Tal
DAY TWO… 44 miles (70.5 km) Amazingly good and flat roads, mainly for cyclists, through rolling farmland and fields of small sunflowers with borage borders. Perfect for bees! And I…
DAY 01… Home to Donaueschingen
DAY ONE… 13.25 miles (21.25 km) We arrived safely after a bumpy plane descent, and quickly restored bikes from their plastic bag and pipe lagging wrapping to find that we…