Jon's adventure blog: Back in Prague (via Austria)

Hallo - we're now back in a posh (for us) hotel smack bang in the center of Prague. Yesterday we drove from Bratislava to a place called Krems an der Donau, in Lower Austria. There wasn't much to photograph or write about the journey - the roads we very good, fairly twisty, and surrounded by vineyards and fields of crops. Krems was nice - very typical of a lot of Europeans towns with an old town (the Alter Stadt) in the center hidden away from the view of the traffic.

Last night we decided to go the Prague today, rather than stopping somewhere intermediate in the Czech Republic, because we wanted to have a chilled day on Thursday without traveling. So here we are - it was tiring today, not that many miles but a lot of road. Today was actually a typical of a travelling day...

Get up - don't want to - still tired..!
Have breakfast - bread, meat, coffee, maybe yogurt, always scrummy.
Pack two side panniers, top box, a bundle of clothes for the top box, Toni's bag.
Get bike gear on - start sweating almost immediately.
Grab helmets, gloves, panniers, top box + bundle, pay for hotel, find bike, remove bike lock (if not, bike clunks after about 1 foot and sounds unhappy), fit panniers, top box and bundle.
Program GPS, fit ear plugs, put on helmets, put on gloves, start bike, grin grin grin and we're off.
Drive to destination - stopping at least once per hour.
Get to destination - try to find cheap looking hotel or tourist info.
Unpack - remove bike gear - very smelly now - shower - get on normal clothes.
Go out - usually between 3 and 5 pm by now - start the daily hunt for the Independent (or Guardian/Times/Telegraph if necessary) - usually this takes around half an hour. Toni can get quite tired at this point, but is used to it.
Having found newspaper, find beer place, and if not too late get something to munch on - best to do this in Germany or Austria.
Sip beer, read paper, celebrate another cool day of travel.
Go back to hotel - try to find some kind of Internet access for blog, etc.
Copy photographs to computer - edit photographs - upload to Flickr, copy from Flickr to the blog, add some words to the blog.
Figure out destination for the following day - use computer to program waypoints into GPS.
Go out, find restaurant, eat food, drink too much, go back, sleep.

It's not a bad life :-)

So... for today we're just going to add a couple of piccies, and tomorrow we're going to add some more words about our thoughts on the trip (and maybe thoughts for the next one!!!).

Toni's route - Prague, around the Tatras, and back again...