Saturday, June 23, 2007

Hinterberg to Fischling

Short ride today, as campsites are a bit sparse in this area. So we decided to stop at an internet café just before lunch and catch up on some emailing. Turned out we were the first cycling customers at a café that was trying to set up as a cyclist's rest stop, and the owner insisted on taking our photo for his new website. He had just bought the place with the proceeds of 10years as a waiter on a cruise ship, and kept leaving us in charge while he popped out to the shops. He insisted we stay for an all you can eat BBQ in our honour, and charged us only 2euros for massive plate fulls. He then called up his mate on the local radio station we were listening to, and got them to dedicate a song for us. After pressing some free icecreams in our hands and under charging us for our drinks he waved off on our way. A few kilometers down the road our jolly afternoon was marred by the realisation that in all excitement we had left the map at the café. Luke raced back to get it and on the return leg managed to aquire puncture number two of the trip. All was soon sorted though and we finished the day at a campsite that usually only caters for the over 50's, no change there then!
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Total Distance Cycled : 2933m
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Daily Distance Cycled : 41km
Ascent : 220m
Time Cycling : 2h 43
Journey Time : 8h 25
Average Speed : 15 km/h
Campsite : N 47°09'47.2" E 14°44'17.8"
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now you are world famous trans european cyclists (at least on Austrian local radio) will you be charging us to place comments on this blog??
Seems like you did pretty well with your publicity, cheap food and drink can't be bad - maybe you could try to pursuade all the cafes/bars along the way that publicity from you could enhance their business for free meals and drinks....
Nice to see you are heading apace for Slovenia - enjoy your high crossing - keep peddaling, almost at 2,000 miles now!!
XX

Anonymous said...

"Luke raced back to get it and on the return leg managed to aquire puncture number two of the trip"

Told you not to mention the p word didnt I!


Andy

Anonymous said...

What was the song dedication? 'Show me the way to go home' without a map???????