Arriving in Austria

At 34 degrees the first stop in Salzburg was for an ice-cream

Hugo loves a good church

Mozarts birthplace

The discerning art history major in his element

Look at that happy unicorn !!

After taking a wrong turn and walking to the other end of Salzburg we finally found our coffee shop.

Crawling under the children’s entrance to the toilet in McDonalds to avoid paying fifty cent is just part of the average day of a bicycle tourist

I never knew mozart was such a fan of chocalate

He had his own store and all

Salzburg

There was a pretty big climb out of Salzburg

Even at 7 in the evening it was hot enough to have me covered in sweat by the end of the climb

Sunset out of Salzburg

First sight of Lake Fuschl, passing the hotel on the lake we saw 8 Ferrari’s in the carpark. It felt pretty nice to be camping for free on the waterfront thinking how much it was costing the residents of the hotel

Sunset at the lake

Sunset at the lake with us

Waking up on the waterfront

The road back out of the lake

Ready for some climbing

Lake Wolfgang

To lazy to get the knife at the bottom of one of my panniers

Cycling’s great craic

This wasp wouldn’t leave our morning pastry alone so I trapped him leaving a very angry wasp attached to my pastry. Not really a better situation at all.

What to do now?

They’re getting closer

Taking a fully loaded touring bike on a BMX track is probably not the best idea.

After 500 metres verticalin 34 degree heat I spent quite some time rubbing all the sweat out of my eyes

No better reward after a climb then finding an open janitors closet and getting some free toilet paper

The descent after our second climb in Austria

Hugo carrying his bike to riverside spot

Bath time

Having a good scrub

Billa’s are shit

26 km of climbing up to our highest pass in Austria, pretty daunting

It turned out to be very gradual after the initial kick

Other than the odd group of motorbikes zipping past us it was quiet enough

Hugo picking up his precious jellies, you can’t waste any fuel

After stopping to fill our water bottles in the mountain stream

Thinking we were nearly at the top after some pretty steep climbing we turn a corner to see a sign telling us we have 300 metres left to climb. Seeing a turn off we stoped for lunch

A local dish ‘Specknorkrel” (gnocci with pancetta and onions) hit the spot

The view back into the valley we had just come up

Not actually at the top yet but any excuse for a break, the last 300 vertical were a killer

We made it

View from the tarp in the morning

The glorious tarp

A lot of heat in the sun even at 8 am

The view into the valley after our second last Austrian pass

Hugo after a great descent

With the quite smooth roads descending in Austria was great

Our last pass out of Austria turned out to be full of crazy steep percentages and Hugo was not impressed with the imminent switch back

After a while we were talking a break every couple hundred metres

More breaks