23rd day Splitz to Linz

Distance: 128km
Total: 2610km

Waking up from a big feather pillow, could just stay sleeping - and its cloudy, haven't rained yet though - road is dry. Packing up and remembering something about breakfast from last night, going out and seeing breakfast served for one, not being sure its for me, not touching before getting confirm. Eating and eagerly watching coffee pan that's kept warm by a candle.

Getting on bike, its warm and very humid. The shorts I put on biking shorts are obviously too much, and despites they don't really stay on anymore - have I lost something from my waist, haven't used them since Slovakia.

Taking a lot pictures of castles hanging on cliffs over the Danube - ruined and not. Manage to also get my hands on small Danube cycling info booklet with maps and some services listed. As landscape flattens the cycling route has quite bit of dry Danube mud on it, and after a few kilometers my legs are also sandy.

On 60 kilometers find small town and pizza/kebab place in after a bit of wandering. Eat kebab, which is totally different than any kebab I've ever eaten. Gives good energy boost and is by all means decent. Next 40km go smoothly, and I get lost from the route only once - and that actually ended up speeding up the progress as smooth flat and not much trafficked local road allows higher speed without slow downs.

Then I see it - there's McDonalds, think I ate in one last time in Poland. And these things come with Wi-Fi, so I finally get to connect to the interwebs and post the blog updates! While this all goes on - there's thunderstorm outside washing the cyclists on eurovelo, quite convenient timing for me though. Leave when only random drops are landing anymore. The random drops keep landing the rest of the day until I find a small campsite just outside of Linz, with no Wi-Fi AGAIN.

Oh, and first technical problem came in form of front brake cable snapping up - leaving me with only rear brakes. Fixed it with spare cable I had with me, but need some solution to keep the new cable end from disassembling itself.