Easy sunny ride – 23 May
Today was a relatively easy 60 km ride to Hunderdorf. We are now positioning ourselves to get onto a bicycle route through Czech Republic to Prague.
Kris navigated us on country roads again to Laberweinting, where we connected up to the Labertal bike path. The sun shining and the roads were easy. The countryside looks so much brighter and more beautiful in the sun. The whole area is agricultural, with regular small towns. Most of the towns had a church and a maypole. We stopped at Greissing to take a photo of the church as the tower was so different. Most of the church towers here have a rounded turnip like top.
There was lots going on on the farms. We saw newly ploughed fields, seedlings shooting up through the soil, groups of women picking something in a field in the distance, tractors riding around, farmers spreading manure over fields (with accompanying smell that lingers long after you are past).
We reached Straubing, on the Danube and rode down their pristine pedestrian only street to the sound of a street musician playing Pachelbel’s Canon on an accordion.
We did a short stint along the Danube, on the Donau Radweg to Bogan. The Danube was also in flood and at one point our intended cycle path was under water, but Kris found a way around it.
At Bogan we moved onto the Donau-Regan Radweg which heads north. Our hotel was just past Hunderdorf. We arrived early and had a relaxing afternoon at the hotel.