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Europe 2014 – Vienna – A Good Day’s Ride and a Little Night Music
Timeline: September 7th – 10th Determined to ride the next day, Tuesday, we conferred with the girls next door. After having ridden their bikes from Frankfurt, they were up each day for biking outings in and around Vienna. We asked them about places to ride and they confirmed that the island near camp was the place […]
Europe 2014 – Vienna – On the Trail of the Great Composers
Timeline: September 7th – 10th Although just a short 200 kilometers (126 miles) drive from Cesky Krumlov to Vienna from a mileage perspective, the need to take country roads in the Czech Republic added extra driving time to the trip. We entered Austria a couple of hours after noon and stopped for gas at an OMV […]
Europe 2014 – Cesky Krumlov – We Ride and Then We Ride Some More
Timeline: September 3rd – 6th The next two days (we decided to stay one more night) would be devoted to enjoying Cesky’s beautiful outdoors and some predicted nice weather. We’d also take advantage of our warm and dry indoor conditions making use of the very slow Wi-Fi (with good coverage I can load a blog […]
Europe 2014 – Cesky Krumlov – A Hidden Gem
Timeline: September 3rd – 6th The drive to Cesky Krumlov took some time, all of it being on small roads with lots of speeding up and slowing down. We stopped in a little town for a bite to eat in the early afternoon, a truck stop of sorts, ordering a hamburger, fries and a coffee, […]
Europe 2014 – Prague – How Much Has it Changed?
Timeline: August 29h – September 2nd The drive to Prague went easy, mostly autobahn as we left Germany, then small country roads in the Czech Republic. Toll roads in this country are paid for with a sticker you purchase and place in the car. We stopped at a gas station just inside the country to […]
Europe 2014 – Dresden – My That is a Very Nice Volkswagen
Timeline: August 25h – 28th With our appointment at the VW factory for noon, we could take our time in camp the next morning and relax a bit. Camping Mockritz bakes bread and croissants each morning and it was a delight to walk over to the reception/market and pick up warm carbohydrates to go along […]
Europe 2014 – Dresden – Ghosts of Kurt Vonnegut
Timeline: August 25h – 28th The drive down to Dresden took a little under three hours, almost all of it on high-speed autobahn and we arrived at Campground Dresden-Mockritz later in the day. Located in a suburb, it is surrounded by a residential neighborhood without many services. The restaurant at the campground was closed (we […]
Europe 2014 – Berlin – More Rides and More Sights
Timeline: August 16th – 24th Over the course of the next four days we’d devote two of the days to bike riding and two to sightseeing. Our rides took us along pretty much the same route, northwest out of camp along the canal, following the bike signs as we went. Our second go at the […]
Europe 2014 – Berlin – We Walk and We Remember
Timeline: August 16th – 24th The next day we were back in town to do one of the Steve’s self-guided walks, essentially retracing on foot what we’d done the previous days on bus and bike. We started in front of the Reichstag, and then passed by the Memorial to Politicians Who Opposed Hitler, the Berlin […]
Europe 2014 – Berlin – We Ride, Get Lost, and Find Our Way
Timeline: August 16th – 24th Putting into action our goal of riding more, that Tuesday we saddled up and rode east along the Saatwinkler Damm canal towards the center of the city. A blue-sky day with a bit of a chill (it would be cold our entire stay in Berlin) it was good to be […]
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