The Isar in flood – Tuesday 22 May

The Isar in flood – Tuesday 22 May

The rain had eased today, so we did a full 82 km ride from Marzling to Greilburg.

We started out along the Isar river trail, which had been flooded by the rain of the previous two days. In some cases the riverside cycle paths were not accessible. We always found another route relatively easily.

Water bridge
Isar bike path underwater – luckily we didn’t want to go this way
Isar in flood

A feature of the day was older men riding around on bicycles stopping to help us. One helped us find an alternative route to the closed bike path (see photo below) – riding ahead of us a little way to direct us.

Bike path closed

We also had our second flat tyre of the trip, this time on Jenny’s back tyre. We replaced it with the new tube we had bought in Italy. Kris really struggled to pump it up, until he figured out how the new valve design worked. We have never had a tube with this design valve before – you have to remove the whole top before pumping, otherwise it just lets more air in while you are pumping.

The main town we passed through was Landshut. When I stopped to take the photo of the flooded river below, another elderly man on a bicycle began tell us that we should go and look at the flooding on the weir around the corner.

Landshut, Isar in flood

We followed the old man on his bicycle to this weir, the flooded water coming down it was indeed impressive. There were also a bunch of tree trunks and branches that had come down the river.

We did some shopping and bought a heap of goodies for our supper at a supermarket, before heading away from the Isar. This took us off the Isar cycle trail onto the Isar-Laber cycle trail (which essentially connects the two river routes). Our ride was through rolling hill country with lots of corn and rape seed fields.
To get to our hotel, we had to move off the official cycle route, winging from small village to small village. The last bit was quite hilly and tiring.

The hotel we stayed at was one of the best of the trip (not the cheapest). Our room was big and had a unique, bright decor – artistically done. It has been in same family for ten generations (and we saw the ancient grandmother and grandfather taking their meals in the restaurant). There seems to be a farm attached to the hotel as there was a massive barn at the back where we stored our bicycles (so big you could put a house inside it).

Gasthof Pritscher

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