Month: September 2016

This was a long day. I felt good after resting in Maribor, I had a cleaned and lubed chain, some tail wind and the last ~40km were mostly downhill. I did some climbing throughout the day but I was pleasantly surprised with the long descend to Ljubljana.
I cruised around the town center and quickly found a hostel about 2km from downtown. It feels like the real non tourist Slovenia here around the hostel.
They moved a tv to my room so I could watch the woman’s US Open final but we could not make it work – sad; I wanted to see the hopefully Czech victory in NYC.

Hostel Simple, B 21 EUR

This was the last day on the well marked portion of the Eurovelo 9 trail. The rest of it past Maribor is in planning or in implementation but not finished.  There were a lot of day cyclists riding around on the last section on the southern border between Austria and Slovenia. I also saw a few touring cyclists but I did not talk to any of them because they were going in the opposite direction.

The highlight of the day was the pretty little village St. Anna am Aigen. I stopped there for coffee and ice cream.

I arrived in Maribor, Slovenia a little past six and I was pretty tired. I think the climbing yesterday took its toll. I don’t feel like a mountain goat with my heavy bicycle.  I plan to stay in Maribor all day tomorrow, relax and explore.

Hostel UNI, B+B 34 EUR

 

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I did a lot of climbing today and some of the views were just gorgeous it was worth it.
I ended up in the campsite today it is only about half full and everything is very clean and nice; so far I like it.

Camp, 13EUR

 

Day five of the tour was a rain day.

I spent it at this beautiful place eating delicious food and I set up this website which I hope will get better with time.

I followed Eurovelo 9 for most of the day.  It was a nice scenic route, low traffic but a little longer than necessary.

Meininger Hotel Downtown Sissi,  B 40EUR, BR 8EUR 

 

This is the second day of the tour.

All went well and I even stopped at the pub where I spent a lot of my military service time in the late 80s in the village Mutěnice.

Hotel Imos, B+B+D  – 570CZK

This was the first day of the tour. I did the route planning using mapy.cz .
This app works perfectly however I heard that only in the Czech republic. I was chased by a storm for a couple hours but I managed to escape.

Kroměříž is one of the towns that everyone should see it is very very pretty.

Ubytovna Smetanka, B – 300CZK