A short ride to Nußdorf

It's tough to figure out how long we want to bike every day - there are so many dependencies like - how hot is it, where's a decent selection of hotels, etc. Today I planned a ride of 30 k, which is a reasonable short bike ride. But the Innradweg (Inn bike trail) was marked in two places - one a completely straight track right on the river, and another, meandering through towns. We took the first one, accidentally, and ended up getting to tonight's hotel at 10.35. It was about a 2 hour ride for us.

The ride itself was fine. There were some long straight stretches along the Inn, a large damn, and also I saw my first boat - which was a flooded ferry boat, meant to ferry people from one side of the river to the other. Seeing it made me realize that this was the very first boat I've seen on this river. And it was flooded - not operational. I wonder if that's normal, or if it's just because the river is really high?

Flooded ferry boat

Here's a few more pictures from the ride.

This is about the 5th dead mole we've seen

The The Oberaudorf Ebbs damn

The heat has finally been relieved. There was a tiny bit of rain this afternoon, and a huge amount of thunder. But it's cooled down a lot.

The town of Nußdorf is a very small village just on the Inn. Not much is going on here, but there's a pretty little path through town that goes along the mill stream, plus another trail that Peter and I took, called the Roman trail, but I saw no signs explaining why it was called the Roman trail. The whole down smells like cows - cow manure, that is. It's not a terrible smell, but definitely tells you - you're in the country.

Our room

Watching the clouds come in

Dinner was an experience. I realized there weren't going to be many choices, so I figured we should start looking for something early. We stopped by the butcher, where we'd previously gotten a Leberkaese semmel (meat roll). It seemed like they were also a bit of a restaurant. But they were closing, right at 6. I asked where else we could eat, and they suggested another place down the street. It was a restaurant that was a little run-down looking, owned by a lady who looked like she was going to retire the next day. She told us immediately - I'll make you something cold, but I'm not cooking anything. But it was either eat there, bike to the next town, or eat nothing. We ended up having one salmon sandwich and one tomato sandwich, and they were fine - much more than enough.

After dinner we walked around town a little more, and found one of Peter's favorite places - a playground. I know I keep harping on this, but even a tiny little village schoolyard playground here is so much better than playgrounds made in the US, where it seems like only one company has survived all the lawsuits. This playground had merry-go-rounds, see-saws, a tightrope, swings longer than 5 feet, all kinds of fun stuff that you don't see in the US anymore.

I was going to add a few more pictures here - some really nice ones - but Blogger is not cooperating, and is only showing me pictures on my phone from the first part of the day. Maybe it'll work tomorrow...

EDIT - adding the pictures I wasn't able to add earlier.

A little stream ran through the town, previously used to power mills

This tiny sawmill was still operational - we saw a guy working there - but I don't understand how something this small can be profitable...

These long benches were in front of almost all the houses. It's probably where people hung out, before TV.

This was previously an oil mill

Tomorrow the plan is to head to Wasserburg. It's a 46 k ride down the river, which is the longest we've done. But the other option - Rosenheim - is a really short ride, like 16 k. Two consecutive days with very short rides seems like too much.