Spent our last two days in Germany at an Airbnb house in Passau. We’ve done around 580 km along the trail so far. Weather is mixed still, but hoping for more sun in Austria. Was chatting with a bike store owner today about e-bikes - we were noticing tons of electric mountain bikes on a road biking trail and were wondering why; the bike store owner said it’s “suv syndrome”. People commonly ride e-mountain bikes on paved trails in Europe. If I could recommend something to someone biking this trail in the future, so far it would be to take a rest day on Friday and/or Saturday- that’s when everything is open and things are happening. Most shops closed Sunday - can’t even buy groceries and Monday many stores are still closed. Better to keep biking during those days. Also, if you’re biking through Germany with kids, this country has the best playgrounds I’ve ever seen.
May 14 - biked 36 km from Ingolstadt to Bad Gogging, cold
May 15 - biked 55 km from Bad Gogging to Regensburg. Stayed two nights at the same campground. Enroute to Regensburg we stopped in Weltenburg for a beer and lunch. The benediction abbey there is Bavaria’s oldest (founded in 610 ad). We decided to take a boat from Weltenburg to Kelheim, which provided great views of a canyon section of river + beers, pretzels and accordion music.
May 17 - biked 56 km from Regensburg to Straubing. Stopped at the Walhalla Temple enroute. The temple was built by Ludwig 1 to honour great Germans; it was modelled after the Parthenon in Athens - lots of marble.
May 18 - biked 35 km from Straubing to Deggendorf. Nice campground on the beach. My hayfever went bananas, so bought a cornucopia of Germans pills, all good now. Lit my jet boil stove on fire - still works, but all plastic parts are looking sad.
May 19 - biked 58 km from Deggendorf to Passau. Spent two nights at an Airbnb.
May 14 - biked 36 km from Ingolstadt to Bad Gogging, cold
May 15 - biked 55 km from Bad Gogging to Regensburg. Stayed two nights at the same campground. Enroute to Regensburg we stopped in Weltenburg for a beer and lunch. The benediction abbey there is Bavaria’s oldest (founded in 610 ad). We decided to take a boat from Weltenburg to Kelheim, which provided great views of a canyon section of river + beers, pretzels and accordion music.
May 17 - biked 56 km from Regensburg to Straubing. Stopped at the Walhalla Temple enroute. The temple was built by Ludwig 1 to honour great Germans; it was modelled after the Parthenon in Athens - lots of marble.
May 18 - biked 35 km from Straubing to Deggendorf. Nice campground on the beach. My hayfever went bananas, so bought a cornucopia of Germans pills, all good now. Lit my jet boil stove on fire - still works, but all plastic parts are looking sad.
May 19 - biked 58 km from Deggendorf to Passau. Spent two nights at an Airbnb.
Wow... Great pictures Gareth! Thanks for sharing. Have tons of fun and beer!
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