Day 2 - Next Stop: Bad Gastein

The first thing we had to tackle the next morning was to get up to the cycle path again - a pitch of 15% that we had gone down just the evening before. But first, we had breakfast, prepared by the "culinary specialist" (me): coffee and porridge with banana.

Thus strengthened - and knowing that we had survived the last, very strenuous day - riding felt easy and we made good progress. We rode in the wide valleys and apart from the occasional ups and downs through the villages it was quite relaxed - at least, until we got to Bad Gastein, where we once again had to prove our strength and endurance to climb up! However, we got rewarded by the view of the waterfall passing right through the city center and we dismounted our bikes to take a closer look and hike up a bit. Afterwards we had a light lunch in a bakery, before climbing up again - Bad Gastein is really not kind for cyclists, as the streets are crazy steep!Read more