Jeff,

Loved the cloud photos–been doing some here, as they have similar characteristics (to the German/Austrian variety) and different somehow from our California clouds.

Well, we have now gone from shmucks to the Canterbury Tales, wo willst us gehen next? Not only is there this Danube-riding follow the exciting boog adventures as cyclists, but we are all getting a fine education. I hope the proper degrees will be distributed at the concluding ceremonies.  The male boog continues his practice of distributing homework to the innocent masses, even from a bicycle!  Truly amazing.  Even the Pope replies.

By the way, is the "Bouygues" telephone company in France one of the Boog subsidiaries?.

BTW, Jeff: this "Bio" stuff seems to very prominent in the supermarkets we frequebnt in Paris.  Even the chocolate. Must be very reassuring to people, as the magic word "organic" seems to have this mesmerizing effect on the Californians and others who can afford it.  Let's hear it now for organic junk food. Is this a contradiction in terms or just good marketing? 

Dee

—–Original Message—–
From: Jeff Gray
Sent: May 9, 2008 12:45 PM
To: vox <980286c3a15f1c66@moblog.vox.com>
Cc: sacking@netbox.com
Subject: BSD Aschach

8 May  in Aschach

This post is out of order as we could not send this one earlier so used the cell phone to update and send pictures. 

Not sure yet but may revert to the older method of using the cell phone for posting, sending camera pictures only to flickr and add comments, like this one, when connections are possible.

  The ride out of Passau to Aschach was probably the best ride of the trip so far.  Scenery and weather both cooperated.  That and one ferry ride, we could have taken more but the ride was so nice we took the road.
 
Once on the South bank the area became rural and very quiet.  Stopped at a farm for lunch and had our first "Most".   Did not realize at the time, read about it later in the day, that this area is famous for its "Most", a light colored but strongly alcoholic (clost to 5%) apple and pear cider.   On the 9th we will go through a village that has special orchards and a museum of "Most".

Don pointed out correctly (discussed this with some locals) that  we were at a "jausensatation".  This I learned is an Austrian word and does not really exist in German.  The beer garden in Linz on the 9th had a variation on the spelling Jaus'n or some close variation.

The number of fellow traveler has increased dramatically; maybe more in one day than all previous days combined.  The weekend ride will be very crowded, maybe we will need a number to get on the road. 

We met couples from Check and from Slovacia, they asked us for advice as their german was non-existant. In general much harder to strike up a conversation as so many are going the same way it is like being in a popular resort.

Walked around the lovely town of cafes and riverside views.  Went into the shops and found that we could barely understand the local dialect. The items on the menu are very similar but the spelling and punctuation are quiet different.  The dialect is something like Mulhlenfrienden.

QB found a number of Gartenswerk (gnomes) to both admire in the shops and photograph on the road.  Their pictures as well as others are now on flickr.

Linz is a one day city so we will move onto Enns tomorrow.  Enns by their marketing is the oldest city in Austria. 

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