Today we could afford a lie in that was until last night's spicy pizza repeated on us!
We went for breakfast which we hadn't paid for, we did try to pay twice but they wouldn't have it, we didn't try a third time.
We loaded up the bikes and found that we could leave the car park without paying so there's probably a Bourne style international man hunt going on looking for us.
We headed South through Austria starting on a fun winding A road and then when he came to the mountains we turned off onto the smaller twisty roads which were great fun.
We came to a small town and spotted somewhere to eat, but needed to turn the bikes around. We did this in the town square after going through a no entry sign, only to find a TV crew filming and we'd ruined their shot. They shouted at us a lot so Steve revved his engine to deafen the sound engineer...
For lunch, much to Steve's surprise, Mark ordered a salad, although it was covered by 5 fillet steaks. Although the food was great, they did get our order wrong twice, maybe we need to brush up on our German. Steve ordered dumplings and got prawns, Mark ordered Coca Cola and got coffee.
Over lunch there was a thunderstorm which we waited out, but it dried up pretty quickly and we were on our way again making our way through the traffic.
As we got close to Leinz there was another thunderstorm with lightning hitting the mountains around us. We stopped for some fuel but they wouldn't serve us because of the threat of lightning. Bunch of wusses I tell you, yesterday they closed the roof bar because of rain and today they hide indoors because of a storm. What's next? Closing the bars because of a strong breeze?
Steve then led the first route march of the holiday to see a castle that was so rubbish that as soon as we saw it in the distance we turned around and got ice cream instead.
Back in the town centre there was a massive climbing tournament going on with a climbing wall setup and various people competing to climb it. They're timed as they climb to 1 hundredth of a second which is a little over the top as only 2 people made it to the top and they were 40 seconds apart.
We left the tournament and went to a sea restaurant that only served one fish. Mark was happy with that and ordered the mixed grill. Steve nipped to the loo and when he came back he said "look at her trout!". Mark wasn't sure where or what he was meant to be looking at!
Back at the climbing tournament, and the final had started, unfortunately though there were three spots of rain so the international televised event was cancelled and people were actually running for cover. This is despite every other shop selling survival gear!
There were thousands watching the event but the prize ceremony wasn't so well attended. In fact we're not sure that the prizes were for best climber but for strangest trousers.
It's Monday night, so fairly quiet out, so we just had a few beers and headed back.
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