{"id":2493,"date":"2011-06-28T15:50:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2011-10-22T21:42:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:42:43","slug":"day-39-monday-june-27-roudnice-nad-labem-czech-republic-to-bad-schandau-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"Day 39, Monday, June 27 – Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic to Bad Schandau, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, research showed we had a tough ride ahead, but at least it was going to be a pretty sunny day.\u00a0 We started at 61 and quickly climbed to 65 degrees (perfect riding conditions).\u00a0 A quick climb up to the bridge out of town and we were instantly in beautiful fields \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

with signing birds and rabbits the size of a (good size) small dog and hills in the distance. \"\"<\/a> Large fields of string beans, \"\"<\/a> almost ready to pick.<\/p>\n

Words cannot describe the beauty of our ride today, or to quote:<\/em><\/p>\n

“I won’t have enough hands, canvas or colours to paint the beautiful things I see.”<\/em>
\nVincent Van Gogh – 1888<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of the many joys of touring is sometimes you turn a corner and you are taken aback by what stands before you.\u00a0 It happened in Budapest as the Parliament appeared and again this morning.\u00a0 The pictures do not do the scenes justice \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>but it was breathtaking.\u00a0 As a side note:\u00a0 be sure to ask Jerry about the dog we met along the path.<\/p>\n

In between enjoying the scenery, we did a lot of climbing and had some rough road conditions.\u00a0 We rode on every single possible surface, concrete, asphalt, rocks, pavers, cobblestones, dirt \"\"<\/a>and mud; \"\"<\/a> none of it smooth.\u00a0 Thought we had done it all until we hit a creek bed we had to traverse and shortly thereafter, railroad tracks, without any kind of path crossing it.\u00a0 We literally had to lift our bikes over the railroad ties as well as the three foot ditch before the road.\u00a0 The course definitely gave our gears, bikes, bodies and brains a workout.\"\"<\/a>which way would you go?<\/em><\/p>\n

But it was so gorgeous\u00a0 \"\"<\/a> as soon as the road conditions improved, we forgot the pain.\"\"<\/a>By the afternoon, we hit a great bike path \"\"<\/a>that was ‘relatively’ flat and still offered incredible sites, castles on hills included. \"\"<\/a> Unfortunately, the wind (that had picked up to about 20+ mph) in the morning had remained and kept us at a slow pace.\u00a0 We still made it to our destination town by 2:30, after 60 miles.<\/p>\n

Bad Schandau is a charming town along the Elbe.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Most fascinating, though is a picture of the floods from a decade ago.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>From the markers on the walls, it looked like the river had risen 30+ above it’s current level, devastating.<\/p>\n

After dinner beside the river and a little catching up on emails, it is time for bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, research showed we had a tough ride ahead, but at least it was going to be a pretty sunny day.\u00a0 We started at 61 and quickly climbed to 65 degrees (perfect riding conditions).\u00a0 A quick climb up to the bridge out of town and we were instantly in beautiful fields with signing birds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}