Passau to Braunau - It's a scorcher!!!

This stupid Internet cafe doesn't let me move the photos around, so they'll have to remain at the top for now.

Bird watching


Exact route to Innsbruck



Phew, we feel like we are on a completely different continent, with temperatures reaching 37° today. Silke, you were right of course - I shouldn't have moaned so much about the rain...

This is the place where my rough map of our route is very wrong, as we travel along the Inn, initially westwards towards Munich, before turning southwards towards Rosenheim and the Alps. You can see the exact route as far as Innsbruck above. We have made such good progress, Tina can join me to Innsbruck before heading back to Berlin by night train.

We left Passau late after I got my brake pads sorted in a bike shop. We zigzagged in and out of Austria on either side of the river, which forms the border with Bavaria.

There are several dams on the River Inn, creating some excellent breeding grounds for birds visiting from distant places like Siberia and Asia. I have been called a twitcher on previous cycle tours and now I know what that means, I freely admit to getting out my binoculars and having a good gaze - for instance at the rare Great White Egret/Silberreieher. Fortunately, I was not the only one to be interested (see photo above).

The cycle paths are good enough - mainly dirt tracks and occasionally hilly, but nothing compared to the Czech Republic.

We were extremely hot and thirsty when we arrived in Braunau, but found a nice Gasthaus to stay in - unfortunately with a very hot room, but we made the most of the beer garden.

Distance today: 74 km
Total so far: 916 km