About Us

In our normal lives Ed is a teacher and Helen is a geneticist. Last year, Helen finished her PhD, so we decided it was the best time to set off on a long dreamed of trip to China by bike. Ed reluctantly gave up a great job, but as he put it: "It's about time I went to see some of the places I teach about". In the end, we reached China and cycled over 15500 km. We are now back in the UK. Thank you to all the wonderful people who looked after us on our trip. We often felt humbled by the kindness of strangers.

Sunday, 4 October 2009

Austria 2

Since we left Innsbruck, the weather has become more autumnal, but the sunshine continues. We managed to make a great route through the Alps by following various tributaries of the Danube: the Inn, Salzach and finally following the Enns to its confluence with the Danube near Linz. Here are a few photos from the last week or two:

We were very excited to spot this lynx hiding in a tree... in Innsbruck zoo.



Thanks to the kind campsite lady, who let us stay in this lovely chalet, for the price of a tent pitch!


Real Senns ! ( cow herders bringing their cattle down from the Alpine pastures to winter in the Salzach valley).
In our ruthless persuit of alpine passes with great descents, we tackled the Grossglockner pass. It was not actually on our route so we cheated a bit by leaving our bags in a campsite and taking the bus to the top to scout out future mountaineering trips, before cycling back down. With about 2000m of downhill road lasting 40Km wouldn´t you?!



The beautiful Enns Valley.



Joining the Danube



Modest accomodation that the monks at Melk´s Benedictine monastery (on the Danube) have to put up with!
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  1. Glendornie9 October 2009 at 02:26

    Grossglockner Pass - awesome.
    Brake pads - ouch!
    You on the Danube - amazing.
    MaD

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