Day 00 (2014-08-11)
- disassembling bicycle, squeezing it to a box
- evening transport to airport (only the second attempt succeeded (missing ticket))
- “sleeping” on airport
Day 01 (2014-08-12)
- after bad sleeping one hour in sunny heaven (and back to cloudy Earth)
- ~3 hours assembling and loading bicycles
- initially lost in Treviso
- not too many cycling paths but drivers are used to it
- arriving in Venezia – everything paid, expensive parking for bicycles
- all houses disintegrate like they’re built on water, exception – sumptuous boutiques
- in the afternoon swifting on coast plane, long queue apparenlty for nothing (heavy traffic?)
- see-bathing on Jesolo sandy beach
- dinner in pizzeria; desperate looking for a sleeping place
- sleeping: field near an auto-service and big parking lot
- 95.3 km, 4:45, 38.79 km/h
Day 02 (2014-08-13)
- morning stop at McDonald’s
- long cycling on a plane –> high average speed, backpain
- before Udine a thunderstorm, waiting at gas station
- through Udine (my first fall on wet asphalt), climb to 800 m pass
- sleeping: a pass near Canebola (on some military or whatever equipment)
- 131.5 km, 6:06, 42.7 km/h
Day 03 (2014-08-14)
- departure around 11 o’clock (raining)
- downhill to borders in rain, than waiting in a camp and continuing again in rain
- (even unbreathing raincoat was useful)
- psychologic downtime, however with followin sun and no rain – improved mood
- in the evening climb to Vršič pass
- rain, cold and soup in a hut
- downhill in dark, fog and rain – my second fall on wet cobblestones
- finally I learnt not to use front brake
- sleeping: youth hostel in Kranjska Gora
- missing data
Day 04 (2014-08-15)
- Tržič – not rich but quite a nice town (and they have pet pigs)
- Loiblpass – main road – not steep – quite easy (and tunnel)
- sleeping: RC modellers airport near Unterglainach
- 98.4 km, 5:34, 62.9 km/h
Day 05 (2014-08-16)
- almost still downhill along the Drava river
- many water powerplants
- appealing staff in Dravograd cake shop
- Maribor = Mahrburg ~ Mag Ich Kampf
- sleeping: Kožik’s in Malečnik near Maribor (Tomáš’s father friends)
- 157 km, missing data
Day 06 (2014-08-17)
- sightseeing in Maribor
- Albanians make the best ice cream, oldest vine plant
- sleeping: hidden behind maize plants near Neustift
- 20 km (sightseeing), 70 km track, missing data
Day 07 (2014-08-18)
- land of vineyards, agriculture (pumpkins) and spas (Hundertwasser, Bad Blumau)
- a bit hilly
- flat tyre – extra stop at gas station
- Hartberg (shopping or something)
- sleeping: a field near Pinggau, still under Mönichkirchen
- 107.6 km, 5:23, 64.65 km/h
Day 08 (2014-08-19)
- downhill from Mönichkirchen
- in the evening arrival to Vienna
- dinner in a restaurant, bought two 20 € bottles of vine (allegedly tasty)
- sleeping: bushes by Brünnerstrasse near gravel-pit
- 141.1 km, 7:03, 71.17 km/h
Day 09 (2014-08-20)
- averagy cloudy day and way to Břeclav, Jirka disconnected and continued to Slavonice
- a bit hurrying up for the train
- sleeping: warm and dry bed
- 89.6 km, 4:04, 56.42 km/h (plus various kilometers from train to home)