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Bike trip to Frankfurt & YAPC::Europe 2012

2012-08-16T06:24:14+02:00

In a few minutes I'm starting our (me & MaKo) bike trip to Frankfurt for this years YAPC::Europe by cycling to Franz Josefs Bahnhof and taking a train to Passau. While I'd love to cycle the whole distance, there isn't enough time in my families holiday schedule. It's still ~500+km, which is quite a lot for 3.5 days (so we might take another train in between..)

I'll try to update this page during the journey, if we find internet...

... but there was not internet, so here's the post-journey journal:

We cycled 493.03km, averaging a bit below 20km/h. We took a train between Nürnberg and Würzburg, because the whole trip wouldn't be doable (for us) in the available time. The weather was mostly nice, besides a short rain shower on Thursday afternoon. The heat on Sunday was barley manageable, but we took a short break on the Main for some swimming. We passed a lot of nice medieval towns and villages, lots of corn fields, saw two fireworks, cycled along 3 rivers and two man-made canals, and had a great trip.

Now I'm looking forward to three days of YAPC::Europe (even though I'd appreciate it if we moved the conference to a swimming pool - IT'S SO HOT!!!)

Riga - YAPC::Europe 2011

2011-08-20T19:27:53+02:00

A quick trip to Riga for YAPC::Europe 2011, including a one-day cycle trip to the beach at Jurmalla. I did not bring a camera, but maybe I can get some pictures from MaKo when he's back...

Bicycle tour to Franzen

2011-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

We continued out cycling trip after a day of rest in Vienna, and now without the camping gear. Our destination was Franzen, small village between Truppenuebungsplatz Allensteig and Dobra-Stausee. Also, a friend of ours recently bought a big house there (which used to be the local pub 15 years ago).

We cycled along the Danube upstream up to Kraftwerk Grafenwörth, then along the river Kamp up to Horn, and from there to Franzen (with a long stop at the Kletterpark Rosenburg)

After three days of cycling we arrived in Franzen and spent two lazy days there - very nice area!

To get back to Vienna we cycled through the Truppenuebungsplatz, which was quite interesting: There were several waring signs telling to not leave the road and to not take pictures. And the countryside was untouched by farming.

Nice trip...

bicycle tour along the vlatva

2011-07-18T10:47:00+00:00

After packing our cycles (the camping gear was stored in my bike trailer, mostly to slow me down a bit..) we took the train to České Budějovice and from there we cycled to Český Krumlov, where we camped for two nights. We spend a sunny day exploring the nice small city (again..).

Then we rode on Lipno Stausee, the longest trip on this journy. Very nice countryside, the only downside was that there is no dedicated bike tour - you have to ride on the regular street, among a few cars. The last part (after Vyšší Brod) was quite the oposite: a rather rough track over rocks throug the forst, alongside the Vlatva and a railway track.

We camped a few days in Frymburk, but the weather was suboptimal. But we managed to get a few hours of sunshine in the rather absurd tourist ressort Lipno nad Vlatvou (or at the bobsleigh track there, to be specific).

On our way back we cycled along the souther shore of the Lipno lake (nearly touching the Austrian border), using the "longest ferry route in the Czech Republic" (about 1200 meters... :-) to cross the lake, catching a train at Hurka back to České Budějovice. We spend a night there and then went back home, to get rid of our wet camping gear...

But despite the awful weather, it was a nice holiday (und kein Straflager..)

Feuerkogel wiedermal

2011-02-05T10:00:00+00:00

The same procedure as every year...