Passau-Vilshofen-Germany-8-4-14

by | Aug 4, 2014 | Bicycling Europe-2014, EuroVelo 6, Germany | 0 comments

Passau-Vilshofen-Germany

Still Euro Velo 6, But Very Different from Austria

15 miles (25 km)

Total so far: 560 miles (902 km)

Route 2,965,678 – powered by www.bikemap.net
Spent the entire morning working on pictures and writing for the blog. Get so far behind each day. Internet has been very hard to find. Many campgrounds along the Danube do not have it. There has been an absence of Internet in the cafes as well.Getting North out of Passau has its interesting moments. There is a gravel section that leads under some bridges before you climb up and cross over the Danube from the right to the left bank at the dam. The red brick building structure on the dam is very noticeable as you are cycling north towards it. Use it as a beacon as signs are a bit confusing or missing.
After crossing the dam, there are many twists and turns to the route. One must pay attention as suddenly the route makes an about face! At one section, after passing through a tunnel under the highway, we came upon a flight of stairs with a steep ramp for the bicycle. Since Passau, we have seen more of these ramps.
 At Schalding, the bicycle path turns to gravel for about 5 km. It’s a narrow, wet and muddy road after a rain. It is a lot slower than the beautifully paved paths we’ve been experiencing in Austria, but it follows right along the edge of the Danube.

There is also a nice café on the section with gravel where we stopped for lunch. All the meals we have had in Austria and now Germany have been reasonable in price and delicious.

There is a market right on the bike path in the town of Windorf which is just 3 km before the campground at Vilshofen. Vilshofen is the most picturesque town on the other side of the Danube from where we are riding.

The campground is just meters north of the bridge that leads into the town. The campground is run by the Marina. There is a large grassy area for camping right on the riverfront. There is a wonderful view of the entire town from the campsite. There is no restaurant at the campsite, but there is a common room where there are tables and chairs and power. They plan to install Internet next summer.

We wanted to ride just a short distance today and finally take a rest day so we stayed here in this charming little town and explore more tomorrow. The cost of the campground was 5 euro. A shower cost 1 euro.

We have seen so many people riding electric bikes. They pedal, but have differing levels of assistance. The low charge allows them to go about 100 kilometers. You can charge the battery anywhere, but more charging stations are appearing.

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We stayed an extra day in Vilshofen because we needed a rest and we wanted to do Internet. The only problem was we couldn’t find any Internet in the town. The campground where we stayed is scheduled to have Internet installed next year. But in the town itself, we checked out the coffeehouses cafés and restaurants and nobody had Internet. This has become a problem for us especially more so here in Germany than even Austria because the campgrounds are not offering Internet at least so far. And the town’s don’t seem to have Internet cafés probably because everybody has their own private Internet at home and so they don’t need to have it in cafés. Anyway, we stayed an extra day in Vilshofen and wandered around some of the sites of town. There is a very nice street between the two big spires that you can see from the river. It was a little surprising to note that instead of being a pedestrian street, it was a very busy car street.

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