August 29th
Stage 31 Nesslbach to Passau. 33kms.
Perhaps it was the long day yesterday but this morning I
felt strangely tired. It didn’t help that the guide book’s 23,5 kms to Passau
was a little optimistic. I had to stop at the very attractive gasthaus at
Gaishofen for a reviving coffee and call Katherine to tell her to expect me a
little late at the Hauptbahnhof in Passau where we were due to meet my nephew
at 12.30. As it happened this allowed Katherine to enjoy a short concert in
Passau cathedral played on what is reputedly the largest organ in the world.
The acoustics must have been magnificent, as I appreciated a little later in
the day when we visited the large and impressively ornate baroque cathedral of
St Stephen.
Despite my tiredness the ride was once again very pleasant,
hugging the north bank of the Danube on, for the most part, well-paved roads
all the way into Passau, except for the final few kilometres into the town
where the route alternated between awkward gravel footpaths and cycle pistes
alongside the main road.
Total 33 kms. Total
from Schaffhausen 580 Total from
Galway 2486
We’ve left Germany behind and are into Austria
still following the not so blue Danube (in fact a mucky brown !). One of the features of driving in Germany was
the incredible number of yellow
Umleitung signs (deviations) that we
came across. It was lucky that for this first week in Germany I had Magali as navigator as following these
twisting, turning off- routes was none too easy sometimes. I really do think
that every place we came to had these road works , a sure sign that the roads
in Germany are being kept up to their very high standard and anyway, maybe the end of the summer is the
season for road improvements.
Katherine
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