September 14, 2021
The Plan
Our tour preparation skills are a bit rusty
Like many in the CycleBlaze community, we have been anxiously awaiting signals that would convince us that travel is viable or at least meet our threshold of risk assessment. I must say that others with journals on CycleBlaze are making touring look pretty similar to life at home which includes most of the standard restrictive measures. Activities involving travel now seem well controlled; so after a more than two year hiatus we are ready to take the leap and take a short trip to Europe.
Since our retirement, September is often a month that we like to travel. The weather can be warm but not too hot, everything is less busy and the travel is just easier. Our fingers are crossed that the weather will be nice. I have been following many of the weather websites and it is remarkable how different the forecasting can be. I like to choose any site that shows the sun!
On this trip we will fly from Vancouver to Toronto and connect on to a flight to Vienna. We chose to travel to Austria as they will accept double vaccinated Canadians without any quarantine period. We also thought that in Europe they have been managing virus outbreaks reasonably well.
We will spend a couple of days in Vienna. We have been there before and like the city. In fact our first cycle tour almost ten years ago went through Vienna to Budapest along the Danube.
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We will not be cycling the Danube on this trip but instead, will take the train to Salzburg. As we have not been to Salzburg previously, we are planning three nights there before we begin riding through the area known as the Salzkammergut - the Austrian Lake district. From there we will connect to Ennsradweg (riding the up hill direction!) to the Alpe-Adria cycle path and then to the Drauradweg. Later stages of the trip still need refining. Altogether it may look something like this.
It has rained here all day. We are almost finished packing. The bikes are in their cases. We are more than ready! The taxi is booked to take us to the airport and by tomorrow morning we will be gone. Wish us happy trails and we hope you will follow along on this adventure.
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3 years ago
Maybe hard to avoid us as we are already booked in the same hotel! We will see you and Racheal there. We can arrange a coffee , beer or something.
The other Scott
3 years ago