Riding: Tuesday 2 April

90km, Ingoldstadt to Regensburg

It started as a cloudy and windy day, but it wasn’t raining.  We rode many kilometers along the dikes of the Danube.

Around mid-day the sun came out, just as we were riding though hop fields.

At the cloister of Weltenburg (oldest cloister brewery, dating to 1050), the Danube cuts though a rocky gorge, and the bike path is forced to go over a mountain.

I decided to ride over, while Betsy took the ferry.  On the other side, in the town of Kellheim, we found a Schneider-Weisse owned restaurant, and they had our favorite German beer:  Hopfenweisse, which is a cross between a wheat beer and an IPA.  We each had one, and that was the highlight of the day.

Hofenweisse; "tap 5" from Schneider-Weisse

 After a beer, Betsy though it best to take the train to Regensburg and look for a place to stay, as I made the journey by bicycle.

Regensburg

Wedding locks on a pedestrian bridge over the Danube in Regensburg

One thing I noticed is that the Danube becomes navigable below Kellheim, and regular ship traffic was a common sight the rest of the journey.