After
trying to fix my blogs - I have discovered I have accidently created two - I go
to a bicycle shop to change my front tire. It’s too warm out to chance it any
longer. In bicycle shop Bruckl in Linz, they fix it within 15 minutes.
It appears
a good decision because some paths off the Danube route are not asphalt paved.
Besides, it gives me a secure feeling. Some shopping in a large supermarket
with gluten-free products and again some time trying to write the blog and
publishing it, make me start at 12 o’clock.
The sky is
fully blue, it’s warm and there is wind Beaufort 5 straight in my face. It
cools, but it also requests more energy to fight that strong and constant wind.
I skip a visit to Mauthausen, the former NAZI-work camp, where they killed
people just by working them to death giving them bad food and not nearly
enough. Over another dam in the Danube – used for turbine waterpower - I come
to Wallsee. Here I have to leave the Danube cycle route to find my ‘Warm
Showers’ host. Although I have studied Google maps and written down several
small villages, but this proofs not too work. A GPS would not be a luxury.
There is no guiding Danube anymore and the number of small roads is enormous. Asking
slows me down and the Austrians describe the route in their dialect, which is
hard to understand, but proofs impossible for cycling instructions. Describing
a route is multi interpretable. Not everyone thinks in the same way. Details
are mixed with important elements and small and little distances tend to vary.
I spill energy in going back a couple of times. But at 5.30 pm I do arrive at
the house of my host in Aschbach Markt, a warm showers professional. Look at his incredible tour though the
USA in 2010.
After a
dinner out together with his girlfriend and sharing a bottle of red wine from
Austrian make, I sleep like a log.
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