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That's some serious zoom Orca! Such a pity about the fires

really nice pic's patrick.

BTW - if you going to be doing a lot of camping it might be worth ditching the closed cell mattress and picking up a self inflating mattress from thermarest. Depending on model, slightly heavier but packs small and 50 x more comfortable. I slept for a few months on a concrete floor with my 25mm thermarest and was happy as Larry. Way more comfortable than any inflatable mattress ether - you need to try one.

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Thanks, yes I have a self inflating pillow that I prefer to a real pillow even, but the closed cell mattresses are multi purpose, we can sleep on them, put them down on a rough surface for a picnic, and most importantly, they protect the bikes during flights. If we do longer camping trips I might carry both.

And if anyone wants to see more pictures, keep reading.

French fries were invented in... Belgium, so we had to have some as a snack. The standard accompaniment is Mayonnaise here. This picture was taken after 9pm, I really love the late hours of sunlight!


Here's our last view of Germany before crossing into Austria


The blue Danube was quite green. As was everything else. Clearly they're not suffering from the severe drought El Nino is causing in this region


It was really beautiful


Fairytale castles can be seen all over


And the sunflowers were in full bloom, glowing yellow and following the sun as they tend to do.


Some days we'd stop for lunch in public parks


For dinner we'd either eat out, or find a store and a spot for a picnic. The cheese was cheaper than back home, but what you can't see under the slice at the bottom is a 500 gram tub of blueberries which were even cheaper. We ate some nearly every day.


Enns was one of the first places in Austria to be officially called a town


Along the route you could often buy a few things, without a shopkeeper. In SA this wouldn't work. The money would just be stolen. And the wine and jam. And the table.


And if you weren't wise enough to pack some tools, some of the lunch spots had tools available for the bikes, along with charging points for electric bikes


We made it to Vienna! 10 points if you can guess what that colourful building in the background is for.


Vienna has a claim to the worlds oldest ferris wheel. Amazingly it was so well engineered that even though it took a near direct hit by a bomb in WW2, it was still able to be used with just minor repairs.


They also have a great big palace, where we went to see an orchestra one night.


When were were heading to the train station to go to Budapest, we ran into a family touring on the same bikes as ours. They'd were heading back to Germany.


Budapest is actually two cities, Buda on the one side, and Pest on the other. I can't remember which was which.

So it's almost the inverse to the wealth of the country...

SA:

Following a late cash injection from Telkom, along with the main contributions from the Lotto, individual athletes can win R500 000 for a gold medal, R250 000 for silver and R100 000 for bronze at both the Olympics (August 5-21) and Paralympics (September 7-18).

But they have to give 20% to their coach: http://www.iol.co.za/olympics-rio-2016/teamsa/sa-olympians-can-win-big-money-in-rio-2045405

We'll have to convert to ZAR and add to the challenge

The best place in the world to retire if you're not loaded according to marketwatch.com... The Algarve!

Their reasons:
-Great weather
-Good expat community
-Top notch health care
-Low cost of living ($1400/month for a couple is comfortable)
-Bargain priced property, even on the coast
-English spoken widely
-First world infrastructure.

Sounds good to me