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Day Twelve Cycling the Danube - Aahhhh Vienna!!!

17 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

  Traismauer to Vienna, Austria, 44.6 miles (72 km), 3 hours 13 minutes, 550 feet (167 m), of elevation (climbing).     As you can tell it was a very flat ride today. I was so happy about that given how long a ride it was. The weather was fabulous a...

Day Eleven Cycling the Danube... A rare short mileage day!

16 Jun 2024 5 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

Day Eleven 23.8 miles (38 km), 2 hours 12 minutes, 405 feet (123 m) of elevation (climbing).      It was a hodgepodge of sights today. As we rode along the Danube, we realized we were in wine country. We rode by so many vine-covered hillsides that i...

Day Ten Cycling the Danube - Cloudy With a Shot of Melk

15 Jun 2024 7 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

Day 10 of our cycling adventure is along the Danube River: 40.2 miles (64.5 km) with 794 feet (265 m) elevation (climbing):       It rained overnight. I saw that it was going to rain yesterday and told my husband to put the shower-cap-looking panier...

Day Nine on the Danube River... Linz, to Bad Kreuzen, Austria. (A case of 'ICYMI.... Apparently I did....)

14 Jun 2024 8 minute read 2 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I've been trying to post each day about our bicycle trip but had to skip yesterday. We had just arrived at our summer camp, which is a 20-year-old travel trailer. There was lots of unpacking and setting up to do. I was just too tired from it all yest...

Visiting Ousdale Broch - an Iron Age fort in Northern Scotland dating from around 2000-3000 years ago

13 Jun 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Hoosie

This is a copy of a post that I first made on the Hive Blockchain on 11/06/24 (link here to original post). I went back to the North of Scotland a few weeks ago, to take my Dad home, after he had been visiting us for a few days. I was born on the Nor...

Day Eight - We needed a day like today.....

13 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I don't have any exact cycling stats because we still hadn't figured out the app yet. My explanation from the previous day's post was learned after we completed day eight's ride from Niederranna 3 to Linz, Austria. It was roughly 40 miles with a s...

Day Seven - Off down the Danube (If we'd only had that meeting.....)

11 Jun 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I have no exact mileage information for this day because we used the tour company's GPS routing in their phone app and that information is no longer available to us.  Whatever the mileage was, we rode more than that.... and then some.  This post is r...

Day Six... Pausing in Passau (AKA This is the way we wash our clothes.....I think....)

10 Jun 2024 5 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

Our first rest day and I'm glad to sleep in a bit, enjoy a leisurely breakfast knowing that the only thing on our agenda today is laundry and a walk to the old city to see the things my husband has on his bucket list here.    I really don't have a li...

Day 5 ...... Will This Day Ever End???

9 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

Cesky Krumlov, or rather Nove Udoli, Czech Republic to Passau, Germany, 36.2 miles (58 km), and 1519 feet (463 m) of elevation (climbing).     This route is very deceiving. It looks downhill the whole way. It wasn't....   Our cycling route today act...

Day Four and a Half (I couldn't do it justice in one post)

8 Jun 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead

I just had to break out Cesky Krumlov into two posts because it's such an interesting, fun place. We arrived there on a Saturday afternoon and boy oh boy the tourists were out in droves. It's a touristy place but worth a visit. It's also a UNESCO Wor...