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DAY 43 - Passau to Linz - 104kms/1719
For once we decide to follow our guidebook exactly for today's stage, so we cycle across the bridge on the Inn river and follow the Danube along its right bank. After about 5kms we cross the Austrian border-Yay! The weather has gone back to being a bit wet but not too bad, we cycle on and the book tells us to get on the tiny car ferry and cross the river, we do this and it appears we have entered Germany again in the small town of Obernzell. Not sure why we crossed here but we don't doubt the book. Rain gets heavier so we stop for an early lunch in Niederanna, meat and beer for me and an awful cheesy bread thing for Mei, that's what you get for being vegetarian.

Rain continues, we sit around a while longer but realise we can't stay here for ever so continue. The scenery makes up or the weather, big hills on each bank of the river and lovely towns too. Cycle way stops completely after a while so we get on another very tiny very to the opposite bank, still not doubting our guidebook. The river does a big 180 degree bend here through relatively narrow gorge, stunning riding now. After some distance and passing through a wooded area the hills flatten out and we cross the river by a big busy brige and continue through farmland until we get to the outskirts of Linz. Pretty boring ride along a busy road but eventually reach the campsite. Rest day tomorrow, really need to wash clothes now.

DAY 44 - Rest day - Linz
Cycle into Linz with dirty clothes to find a laundry only to discover it's a public holiday and everything is shut. We cycle around Linz anyway with our dirty clothes and look at the nice buildings. Very grand stuff but very quiet because everything is shut. Have a beer at the castle on the hill and get some good views of the river, jump on Europe's steepest tram to take us up the top of the hill on the other side of the river and take a look at Postlingberg church. Nice place, good views, nice ice-cream, we cycle back down and that's pretty cool too.

DAY 45 - Linz to Vienna - Train
After our little break in Munich we realise we don't have enough time to cycle to Vienna so we get on the train and have a comfortable trip across Austria to Vienna. We get a map and cycle or miles across the city looking for the campsite. Take a busy route and have fun dodging cars and shoppers before we get to the river and find the cycle bridge across and get to the campsite. Danube is split up here into the main river, a side recreational section and a large canal, pretty big really. Get the tube into the city in the evening and have a wander, heaps of Mozart stuff going on because it's his 250th birthday. Also, we get all of our washing done, both smell like an alpine meadow now.

DAY 46 - Rest day - Vienna
Go to the castle which is massive and has great gardens and a great view of the city. Check out museum quarter and go to the architecture museum whic is cool. Did you know Vienna was the 6th biggest city in the world at the end of the 19th century? Interesting stuff.

Summer is back, 32 degrees and sunny today but quite windy. Back at the campsite at night a bunch of Arabs in suits arrive driving expensive looking cars. They seem like they have never seen a tent before and it takes about 2 hours and help from several other campers before they are set up. It was quite funny to start with but then they started shouting and yelling in the early hours so it woke me up. Not sure what they were up to.