A day in Passau

The plan today was to see a few sights in Passau, but generally take it pretty easy. And we did just that. In the morning we biked to the Veste Oberhaus - a castle/fort across the Danube river.

Breakfast at the Rotel Inn

One of many river boats on the Danube. A change from the Inn, where there were no boats

Biking in a city can be pretty stressful -even cities that are very well set up for biking. There's bike paths everywhere, but getting from one spot to another, with disappearing and reappearing bike paths, and all of a sudden certain paths are pedestrians only, no bikers allowed - it's not always easy. We were biking in what was apparently a pedestrian-only area, and two people within 50 feet or so told us it was pedestrian only. We stopped after the second guy told me I should be a better example to my son.

There's a lot of great views from the fort. We also went through the museum attached to the fort. Peter was most interested in trying to catch the lizards that were everywhere on the rock outcroppings.

Views of Passau from the fort

There was a dress-up station in the musuem

Peter caught a lizard, which promptly dropped its tail

Peter found 1.20 in Euros under the bag storage area

After the fort, we went to a nearby playground (we stop at pretty much every playground there is), then biked home. I was hoping to stop at a grocery store, and there's one marked on the map not too far from our hotel. But after searching for it for about 30 minutes, and unsuccessfully asking 2 people where it is, I came to the conclusion that people in Passau don't shop for groceries.  Seriously - there's nothing here, in main part of the old town. I ended up buying some more sausage type rolls from a little stand - I'd love to not eat any more of those!

A little rest in our room, then we went out again to see the cathedral (kinda done with cathedrals, though). Then we ate some dinner at a "bowl" type restaurant - at least it wasn't sausage.

Dinner

You can really see the Inn and Danube mixing here