On May 21 we biked 40 km from Passau to Niederrana in pouring rain - whole crew was soaked, but somehow the kids were still happy. Felt like we were biking to Prince Rupert in a downpour. Decided to stay at a guesthouse instead of camping to warm up and dry gear (and let the kids watch cartoons). Every time we get to a guesthouse or hotel, the owners seem to cringe when they see four soaking adults and four kids. Our broken German/English conversation usually goes like this:
“4 adults, 2 baby, 2 kinder, need rooms”
“Umm, How many rooms?”
“2 double rooms, and we have baby and kinder beds”
“2 double rooms?”
“Yes”
“Ummm, ok”
Then we proceed to cook in the rooms, dry clothes on the radiators, have wrestle-mania on the beds with kids, wash dishes and laundry in the sinks, make lunch sandwiches from the breakfast buffet, etc. They all seem happy when we leave.
May 21 - biked 40 km from Passau to Niederrana. Confluence of Donau, Inn, and Ilz in Passau. River is now wide, high and brown.
May 22 - biked 40 km from Niederrana to Fieldkirchen
May 23 - biked 20 km from Fieldkirchen to Linz.
May 24 - layover day in Linz. Went to the Ars Electronica Museum, took a steep train to a town outlook and went to the Kulture House to see an art exhibition, which included a crazy woven tube maze you could climb in.
May 25 - biked 40 km from Linz to Au. Biked up to the Mauthausen concentration camp on the way - between 1938-1945 approximately 123,000 prisoners were murdered there - very haunting place.
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