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 […]
