It was really cold last night. I kept having to arrange myself for maximum warmth in my sleeping bag. I'll have to get some baked beans with gravy and onions to provide additional warmth through the night. This morning I really thought it was going to snow. But I might have been overreacting.
I left fairly early, around 9am I think. It was foggy, cold and damp. After an hour the fog burnt away and it turned into a nice day. At some point I crossed into Austria. They didn't even have sign which was annoying. The landscape was very pretty. Similar to the upper Danube, although the river is much wider here and the hills weren't as sheer. It looked a lot like the Hawkesbury River.
The cycle path goes right along the water's edge for almost the entire way. The highlight was supposed to be the Schlogen bend but it was a bit of a let down. It is a section where the river hairpins back on itself and is supposed to be an amazing geographical feature. It isn't. It's just a hilly bend in the river. It was still an awesome place for a bike ride.
I had to take a detour through farms due to road works and it was the buggiest place so far. I was completely covered in little black bugs. I stopped to take a photo and could feel them all taking off from my face and arms and they wriggled out of my sweat. There were more than in the photo but I was hardly going to ride back through them to prove it.
I've stopped short of Linz. I feel guilty because I stopped cycling at about 3:30pm when I could have easily kept going.
The toilets here are strange. They look like they are designed for reverse kanga. I don't really know if I was doing it right. Externally they are exactly the same, but inside the hole is in the front. There is a flat bit at the back, like a little shelf, where ordinarily there would be water. I think I need to see someone use one but that tends to be frowned upon. I'll have to experiment in the morning.
WC you describe are typical German ... can be found in Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands too. You will have noticed that the hole is all before and there is a kind of plateau. To drain standing is a little remake of the biter and the large commission it smells strong strong strong. But hey, the French say that the Germans are obsessed with their turds, and the Germans say the French are afraid of their caca lol. And so, it allows some who have accidentally swallowed their alliance, these toilets can regain its alliance in the stool, on the set. Not very glamorous stuff. And also it allows to see certain diseases like colon cancer, etc ... And I can tell you that everyone pee sitting down. Yes, even men! Already it is more hygienic.
ReplyDeleteThe listed plus: it does not make a noise when unmolded the cake and it does not splash :)
The minus side: strong odors, as the cake is not submerged in water
Yes I fucking hate those Austrian toilets, with what I call their "poo shelf". Fucking disgusting when you're hungover and doing an MD. As Dominique says, strong odors.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see them in Germany but yeah the pool shelf was definitely something different. It seems to negate the point of having standing water in the toilet at all. I'll try a reverse kanga tomorrow.
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