Day 7: Current Situation Regensburg to Straubling (55km) Before you are able to read this post, you must first visit here and vote for Maria, it only takes a few minutes and once done, you’ll be able to read this post in full 🙂 Thank you for voting. If you didn’t vote, then you may have […]
Day 6: Angels with paddles Neustadt to Regensburg (50km) After a good night’s rest, I headed back down to the river. As I approached the river, I could see what seemed to be another tent much higher up the bank, I simply assumed that someone else had joined the nice couple that I’d spoken to […]
Day 5: Ignorance is Bliss Neuburg to Neustadt (45km) The rain from last night hadn’t succumbed this morning, if anything it sounded even more aggressive, although this was probably due to the fact that I was imminently about to leave the tent and feel it’s wrath. Once I plucked up the courage to leave the […]
Day 4: From Dawn to Dusk Dillingen to Neuburg (60km) It took quite a while to pack up and get going this morning, I am still working on a system to fit everything into the kayak. I also took a quick trip to the supermarket to get lunch, deciding that it will be easier to […]
Day 3: Tired Sam and the 7 locks Ulm to Dillingen (~45km) We found a perfect launching spot just outside Ulm, final preparations completed again, kayak off the car for the final time, into the river and I was off. It was sad to see my parents go, they have been an incredible help, but I […]
Day 2: I prefer driving Tutlingen to Ulm Even though yesterday was a little shorter than planned in terms of distance, it was still by an enormous margin, the furthest I have ever kayaked. As a result, the arms were a little stiff this morning. I had a decision to make, my parents are heading back […]
Day 1: Which way to the Black Sea? Donaueschingen to Tutlingen (?km) Donaueschingen is widely considered to be the source of the mighty River Danube, 2,800km of water flowing through 10 countries before draining into the Black Sea. It is Europe’s second longest river, beaten only by the Volga in Russia and has proved to […]
Kayaking? Which one’s that? For the previous two sports, cycling and swimming, I wrote an extensive review of all the training that I’d done in preparation. The kayaking training section will be far shorter, simply because the training has been almost non-existent. Back in Dubai, I did a lot of rowing in the gym, whilst […]
Day 21: Roads to Rivers Kirnbach to Donaueschingen (53km) Baring disaster, today would be the last section of stage 3. I had left myself a manageable 50km until Donaueschingen, although this was predominantly uphill, especially the first 10km. I aimed to start a bit earlier today so that I would be climbing in the fresh […]
Day 20: Where’s the cake? Kehl to Kirnbach (64km) When I decided to do this trip and specifically when I gaily threw in this third stage, I had completely passed over the fact that stage 4 starts at the source of a long river, therefore it must be at the top of a large hill. Looking […]