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Saturday 11th June.  Traiskirchen – Petersbaumgarten               44.8miles  (1668.64 miles total).

14/6/2016

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​ Wow: I’m meeting Nina in Slovenia in just 5 days time!  I have plans to get the bicycle serviced and leave it in Ljublijana and take a bus to Bovec.
 
I woke with the light and started to pack up the tent – to avoid potential witnesses to the heresy of camping wild – as soon as I awoke.  When I’d rolled all the bedding up and put it away – I looked at the time: 05.30hrs!  Could have knocked me down with a feather!  But my strategy worked:  By the time the first early morning dog walkers and cyclists came down the path, I was sat on the bench at the end of the grassy lane, loading up Rowenna with the luggage, innocently. By 7am I was moving, having removed an entire generation of slugs and the odd snail from the tent and panniers.  By the time I’d found a place to stop for breakfast I’d already ridden 15miles alongside the canal. 
 
Highlights – watching three ducks make a synchronised landing into the water – they quacked at each other, afterwards, as if comparing notes.  Checking out the stoppers at some of the turbines – falling in that little waterway would be lethal, I suspect – unless it’s more shallow than it looks.   I made up for the early start by sitting around blogging until midday…
 
The trouble with getting off to such an early start is it gives me an excuse to mooch.  When I made it to  Wiener Neustadt, lunch was a good reason to stop again – then the rain started (not heavy) so I waited a while for that to clear up but then I ran out of excuses and got going.   The rain was actually warmish, just coating the surfaces with wet.   
 
I got my first glimpse of steep hills (the edge of the Austrian Alps?) that afternoon – some topped with castles.   The valley is closing in and there are far more trees around.  This is skiing territory now – though I’m following the River Pitten – which is a fast flowing alpine river and looks like it would be an interesting paddle in a kayak. 
 
Into section 6 of the Eurovelo 9 route, and I’m looking about for accommodation again.  A helpful couple (who, incidentally, had stopped at the roadside to look at a large leech on the damp pavement!) – pointed me in the direction of Gasthof Pichler in Petersbaumgarten which is where I pitched up.  (Pitched up in Gasthof Pichler – groan).  Comfortable room and the guy running it was friendly and helpful – showing me a place to hang my tent out to dry etc.   and bringing me a beer to have in my room (since they were shutting up downstairs by the time I arrived). 
Tomorrow I have a hill to climb to the ski resort Mönichkirchen.
 
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Mon link
14/6/2016 18:27:06

Still loving the blog. Yesterday's as well. Like the story about the guy painting the water colour. The flowers look lovely- a bit alpine. I'm in Edinburgh with Joely for a few days. It's raining. Keep pedalling. Xx

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Terri
16/6/2016 15:43:37

Ta Mon. It's raining here too. Someone accused me of having brought it with me from England! Have fun in Edinburgh - must introduce you to Lynn - who lives in a beautiful flat around the corner from MOMI 1 and 2 - I think you'd really get on (which, of course, means you'll probably hate each other!).

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Jenny Arnold
18/6/2016 18:53:33

I'm loving the blog too. It's like having you here telling me about it all. I confess to getting anxious when there's a big gap in postings - like now - and have this urge to leap on a plane and find you. The fact that I'd have no idea where you'd've got to wouldn't stop me and I bet I could follow your trail. All I'd have to do us ask, "Have you seen a mad woman and woolly sheep on a loaded bike?" Take care Tutters. J xx

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Wellie
18/6/2016 23:50:58

Hi there, am always looking forward to a 'Terri' session ..... feeling guilty about my comfy seat and full belly. Think you are due for a decent break, avoiding mountains and nasty things. Don't break any more teeth. PLEASE!
TAKE CAREFULLY
Wellie (the other one)

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Bridget Williams (PMP)
21/6/2016 13:27:16

You know Terri (even though I'm touching 80) I do envy your adventures! All that lovely food - people from that part of the world are such beautiful cooks .... it seems to be in their blood to be so. And the countryside with all those poppies and cornflowers, giant rolls of hay, fir trees and jumping hares. Have you walked (or cycled) in one of those fir forests yet? It is an amazingly beautiful experience, and one you would never forget. You are doing so well. How long do you expect to be on the road, and what time of the year do you expect to be arriving in Australia? You are so well organised!

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