Day 04

The fourth day I had a little chill out in Linz. I still needed to get there because I was about 10km away from Linz. In the morning it was extremely difficult to start biking as my ass hurt a lot. That eventually became my major problem with biking as soon as pain in the knee faded away. If you read my blog in the past, you would have surely remembered that I had visited this city two years ago with Lila. Therefore, this time I did not need to do much sigsthessing and could jsut hang around, watch a knight tournament during Linz historical festive days (greeat timing, indeed), and recharg my devices in McDonald where I had by the way an interesting experience. One Afro-American guy, about 14-years old and obviously tipsy, came to the “restaurant“ and started harassing customers by begging for food with inarticulated mumbling. He was saw off by several customers, but the most funny one, also an Afro-American was terrified by his obnoxius behaviour and kicked a fuss there. “What the fuck, do not take my food, man“, he screamed suddendly at the guy as he “served himseelf“ with some fries of his allegedly new friend. In the end, the manager had to spring on his defence and kick that guy out. It was quite funny to observe that. I and one elderly woman were particularly amused by this scene and ended up talking for about an hour. She was really garrulous and therefore it was not a problem to engage in a conversation either with her, or with the other guests. Almost everyone looked incredulously as she told the newcomers about my plans to go by bike to Spain and it was quite funny to see their reactions.  

Before leaving Linz, I wanted to ritually have shower in the same fountian as two years ago. What an irony that after I was nicely washed, it suddendly started raining. This rain accompanied me for at least 5h and I was completely soaked from the top to the bottom. In some moments, I even experienced such heavy rain that I could not move and see anything. Even my so called waterproof jacket got wet.

Despite my rest in Linz, I was quite tired, maybe due to my rushed pace during the rain. Interestingly, you tend to ride faster in the rain. This can be either due to the fact that the pavement is wet and therefore you can move more smoothly, or simply because it is cold and you want to warm up and ride faster. I did manage to get to the designated place, but it was rather in the dark and quite late. I vividly remember my riding along various mendeavours of Danube and I could not wait until I reach my goal. I even ate my last Horalka to get more sugar for last kilometres (my favourite sweets, typical Slovakian). As usually I built my base about 10pm. This time, however, in an area full of fishermen and campers. Finally a conventional alternative (last night beneath the railway road was not particularly pleasing but it is funny now in the retrospective). Oh, I almost forgot - I saw a plethora of glowing worms! I could barely see any since I was 7. They are so amazing! It is like a miniscule Avatar. I drunk few gulps of whisky and fell asleep with the sense of accomplishment for the day in the beautiful area of Danube caught in the hills in almost untached nature, far away from any signs of urban areas.