Austria - Day 7 - Mad Cow

Another day, another breakfast, we'd just filled up on croissants and cake when we found the secret sausage and bacon stash. Although we were full, Mark made room.

We've noticed a strange thing with the service here in Switzerland, they ask you what you want, give you all the options, then wonder off and clean up some tables or something.

Hitting the road we were straight into a mountain pass, the bikes engines hadn't even warmed up before we were heading vertical again.

The pass was more suited to bikes than yesterday with more sweeping bends than switchbacks. We had a couple of scares coming around a bend to find a tractor parked in the way doing some hedge trimming.

We stopped for a break in a small town where there was a swimming pool, going past were more idiots on bikes towing their suitcases!

We went on to our favourite road so far, the Furka Pass. Proper nice tarmac, no traffic, wide switchbacks, in fact we think that we only used the sides of our tyres!

We stopped for fuel and a truck stopped and the bloke jumped out to talk to us, he was from Sheffield and about to start a business doing bike tours. I'll put a link on Facebook or something if anyones interested.

Later while we stopped for some pics, some Swiss people came to talk to us to hear our story and they told us about some gophers that whistle at us or some shit. In return we told them to stay off the smack.

A couple more passes later and we were in Lucerne, and heading to our hotel. We'd spend about 7 hours travelling today including the stops so we were knackered.

The hotel looked nice but it was lacking a few things. Parking for example, or a shower that we didn't have to share with 50 other people, a toilet or even bloody soap/shampoo. Criminally the WiFi is also as stable as Kanye West. Considering that this hotel is the most expensive of the trip it's lacking somewhat.

Just as we got to town the heavens opened and there was another thunderstorm which had us running for cover in a bar.

We then bar hopped a bit and watched the Olympics. We were in one bar which also had a restaurant which Steve went in to to use the loo. While he was there some people dressed as a cow came out and it started licking the diners heads. Very strange. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_sNZ00Q78

We ended up in an 'english' bar and sat next to some Swiss army guys in uniform, Mark asked to see their Swiss army knife, but they didn't get it.
We both ate jalapeño burgers which might be a mistake with a 5 hour ride tomorrow!