Alpe Adria Bike Trail
Saturday - August 15th 2020
Thanks to Covid-19 traveling in 2020 was not so easy and so Claudia and I
decided to try something new. For the first time ever we wanted to go on a
bike tour. We planned to try the
Alpe Adria Bike Trail, which runs for about
400km from Salzburg to Grado, but instead of doing the whole trail to Italy,
we only bicycled half way to Villach in Carinthia. Since it was our first tour
of that kind, we planned our stages ahead and booked all the hotels in
advance. Before our tour started we made our bicycle fit for the trail and
finally the day was here and our bike tour started.
Today's stage took us from Salzburg via Hallein and Bischofshofen about 65km
to St. Johann im Pongau. So Saturday morning we grabed our stuff and soon we
were on our way along the Salzach river. The official starting point of the
Alpe Adria Bike Trail was the statue of Salzburg's most famous composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, so that's where we officially started our tour.
Unfortunately the weather wasn't that great, but we made it dry to our first
stop in Hallein. There we stopped for a short break to get coffee and to check
out a small festival. The weather started to get better and so we continued
our tour to Golling, where we had lunch.
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Our First Day
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Mozart
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Hydro Power Plant
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Salzach River
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Alpe Adria Bike Trail
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My KTM Bike
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Coffee in Hallein
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Hallein
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Hallein
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Along the Alpe Adria Bike Trail
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Lunch Break
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After luch the first challenge waited for us, because we had to climb our
first mountain pass. Unfortunately it wasn't our last for the day, since just
a couple of kilometers later we had to face our next ascent to Castle
Hohenwerfen. Luckily afterwards the trail flattened out. In the afternoon we
arrived in Bischofshofen, where we stopped for vegan ice cream to power up for
the last remaining kilometers to St. Johann. There we arrived in the late
afternoon. In St. Johann we stayd at the hotel "
Das Martell", which was
conveniently located next to the bike trail. After check in we had to get our
reward in form of a refreshing cold beer. Later we showered and then we headed
to the village for dinner. We decided to eat at an Italian restaurant, where
we both ordered pasta and bruschetta for starter. A delicious dinner later
Claudia and I just walked around the village until we returned to the hotel,
because it started to rain heavily.
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Along the Alpe Adria Bike Trail
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Fortress Hohenwerfen
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Werfen
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Along the Alpe Adria Bike Trail
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Ice Cream in Bischofshofen
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Hotel Das Martell
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Our Room
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Pongau Cathedral
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Pongau Cathedral
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Italian Restaurant
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Bruschette as a Starter
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Dinner
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