I was writing a lenghty post of my today’s adventures until the blog app which I’m using crashed…So it will be an shorter post than planned…. This morning I woke at 7.00 thanks to the 130 I cycled yesterday. After breakfast I saddled Black Horse to ride to Melk leaving a hotel which was probably used for a dark thriller movie in the 50’s. Strangely there was a stark contrast between the corridors which were dark, old and gloomy and the rooms which were light and quite modern…the twilight zone….. Leaving Linz, 3rd biggest city of Austria and considered by Hitler as his hometown, brought me through a chemical industrial area pranged between the city center and the Danube. Once I crossed the bridge and on the left bank ready to head to Melk, my destination of today. The day could be described as the perfect mix between uneventful and perfect. Why ? In no order of importance : Great weather ; blue sky again and warm enough to cycle without jacket from 10.30. I noticed a sl...