Mostly Jean writing today:
Another
beautiful day today, we are so blessed. The Tyrol area of Austria is one that we
had not visited on previous trips to Europe, and we were wanting to be
in and see the area instead of just passing though.
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| Some straight stretches |
One
of the things Jean wanted to do was bike along the Achensee. We had seen
pictures of it and did a bit of researching it on the internet before
coming, so today was the perfect day to do that.
We headed out about
9:30 with the temperature in the car reading 4c. Us Crazy
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| Bike path alongside the tunnel through the mountain |
Canucks
heading further into the alps to bike when the temperature was that
low!!! But we decided to do it and are so glad we did. We set Gertie
for Pertisau as we knew it was “up there” and she would eventually get
us there.
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| Some views with snow capped mountais |
Once we arrived at Maurach we realized Pertisau was on the
side we did not want to bike along, so we found a spot at Maruach, paid
$3.00 Euros to park until 2:00pm, unloaded the bikes and started out.
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| Paved pathway around the east side of the lake |
The first pathway was level and that was good. Soon we encountered a
hill, then a dip, then more hills and more dips, but we persevered. We
biked on the right side of Achensee from one end to the other, starting
at Maurach and ending in the village of Achenkirch, that was a 21km bike
hike for us today. The lake is very green looking at times and then it
changes to a blueish colour.
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| The highway above |
At one point there was a tunnel for
traffic to travel under the edge of the alp, but the bike path was along
the outside of the tunnel–when we looked to our left we saw the
Achensee very close and way down there!!! Biking there was up hills and
down, but biking back was up hills and down and lots and lots of wind.
At times Dave had to hold onto his hat. So, that made the biking back
much harder. It was a very nice bike hike and now I can cross that off
my “bucket list”.
Back to the apartment to rest and nap and then we
tried the latest craze here in Europe, e-biking.
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| Emerald green/blue water |
The apartment where we
are staying has 2 for use, so we borrowed them. We rode around the
yard a bit to get the hang of them and then we were off, through
Kramasch, over the Inn River, under the autobahn, and to Rattenberg.
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| The terrain is ideal for hikers and bikers |
We
were trying to find a very nice bike path that Leo had told us about.
But we don’t think we found that path, but we did find one that took us
through the village of Renfrew and out into the pasture land. No cars,
so that was a good way to get used to the bikes. Well, I am sold on the
e-bike, wonder what the price tag is? And, you still get exercise
biking!!!
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| Coffee time |
Once your foot hits a peddle, you are off so be prepared.
Yes, you still need to peddle them but it’s sorta like a self-propelled
lawn mower, you peddle and the bike does the rest. We wanted to “try
them out” so Dave had his in
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| Several small churches along the way |
8th gear doing 30kms/hr.
I was a bit more
cautious and topped 7th gear doing 20kms/hr. Over here they are the
thing to have I can see as there is a power button to push when going up the
steep hills. The battery lasts about 5 hours and after it says no more battery, you still have 5 km.
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| Our new bikes - we wish - borrowed e-bikes - man are they easier |
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| Sailboat slips abandoned for winter |
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