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Wallsee-Linz-Austria

Great cycling on beautiful paths

26 miles (42 km)

Total so far: 450 miles (725 km)

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Got a late start out of Wallsee because of the rain continuing in the morning. Also trying to catch up on Internet and charging all our electronics. The sports complex has Internet Wi-Fi, but nobody knew the password, so we never did get on the Internet. This becomes a daily problem for us because many of the little cafés don’t have any Wi-Fi. The campgrounds may have Wi-Fi but a lot of the times it doesn’t work. We can’t use our Wi-Fi on a telephone because my new Nexus telephoned died a few weeks ago.

So anyway, we crossed over the dam to the left bank where we rode a bicycle path right along the edge of the Danube. The other side, the right bank has a bicycle path going out of Wallsee going north for a few miles and then you turn inland and you are on lesser traveled roads that go to the oldest town in Austria, Enns.

Since heavy rain was still in the air, we decided to stay on the Danube and keep a couple of the campgrounds within easy reach.

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Camping in Au a. d. Danube is very nice. But it was too early in the day to stop so we cycled on. They have a power box down in the tent area where it would be possible to recharge your technical goodies. It’s on a waterfront; there are picnic tables. We had an excellent breakfast/lunch at noon. They have lunches at the café; we did not ask if they had dinner. There were no grocery stores in the immediate vicinity, however there is a very large grocery store 3 km away in the direction of Lintz on the bicycle path.

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After Au, the bicycle route gets quite confusing. We weren’t the only ones standing at various junctions looking at our map to determine which way to go. Interestingly, on the left bank after we passed Au, the EV 6 route signs changed to R1. We have no idea why and I’m sure a lot of other people were just as confused as we were. After the campsite at Au, the route wound back and forth on car streets. There were a few hills, although not significantly steep, they were hills. It was not a particularly pleasant route to cycle after all the time on the bicycle paths.

We found grocery stores through the little towns that this route traveled through away from the Danube. By the time we got back to the Danube, we saw more people standing at the junction confused as to what happened to EV 6. Anyway, we proceeded and closed in on Lintz. Glad we are on the left bank of the river opposite Lintz.

We couldn’t imagine the cycle path coming into Lintz from the North. It looks like Gary, Indiana with its industry along the Danube.

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But we were on the beautiful side of the river with a wonderful bicycle path and even though we had a strong headwind in the afternoon, the skies had cleared and it seemed as if the rain had ended. It was Friday; the paths were flush with day cyclists and touring cyclists.

We have been completely amazed by the quality of the cycle paths and the expense the Austrian government has gone to provide safe cycling paths. There are sections which certainly took a great deal of commitment to construct. So far, we have met touring cyclists from Austria, Germany, France, Hungary, England, America, Australia and Canada.

We cruised along the cycle path to a series of small lakes where we knew there was a campsite. The campsite has at least two restaurants right in the vicinity, and a grocery store within a couple kilometers away. The campsite had picnic tables, reasonably nice grassy spots with some shade trees. It has a very nice view of the lake, even though you look through the fence that separates the campground from the park. We were glad to be camping. Prices for Pensions had skyrocketed to $90 or $100 a night. The campground was about $15. We had a delicious supper at the campground restaurant. By evening, the grounds had filled with tenting cyclists.