A charming Hungarian spa town
Our first stop in Hungary was Moson Magyarovor. This delightful spa town has Roman origins and a history of grand development linked to its healing and sought after mineral waters. […]
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Three countries in one day (on bikes)
The drive out of Vienna was easy going along flat plains of towering wind turbines. Being a weekday the road was busy with freight and the registration plates of lorries […]
Vienna
Before we visited the city we collectively knew four things about it: Mozart lived there for a time, its coffee houses are still institutions, it was the seat of the […]
Villages in the Wachau Valley
The Wachau Valley is considered the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in lower Austria. It has a particularly mild and localised climate that lends itself to growing grapes for […]
Mauthausen Memorial
Driving out of Linz through the vast industrial landscape of steel works, power plants and chemical factories, past belching chimneys and overhead railways and negotiating a series of raised roadways […]
Austrian river city of Linz
We didn’t know it but Monday was to be a big day. I was up and out ready to greet the bakery van arriving at precisely the predicted 7.45am. After […]
Heading to the border: Passau
Staying on the Donau, beautiful baroque Passau was our last port of call in Germany. Our aire was alongside the river in a winter floodplain and just a short cycle […]
Bad Abbach and Regensburg
We headed to the Danube, or Donau in German, to see Regensburg. Our stop was at Bad Abbach, a quiet rural town up in the hills and pretty unremarkable but […]
A return to NUREMBERG (NÜRNBERG)
We were packed and ready to leave Rothenburg at 9am but were inevitably delayed by departing packs of fussing Italians at the aire’s only service point. Still, we did the […]
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Returning to Rothenburg ob der Tauber after six years we were excited to discover what state this medieval walled town would be in, following further substantial investment by private and […]
