11.11pm, Eating ice cream and laughing.
Today we woke up and packed our tents away while the boys went to Aldi to get us some breakfast treats. Eggs, fruit and yoghurt, lovely. We hadn't really made a plan for today, other than to find some asparagus somewhere. That might sound like a random desire but it is Spargelzeit in this region of Austria at the moment (and in Germany too). Spargelzeit literally translates to 'Asparagus time', when all the crops of asparagus start to be harvested and entire menus are dedicated to the vegetable.
We'd seen lots of restaurants celebrating Spargelzeit but hadn't actually eaten any of it yet so we were keen to try some. Our route also took us within a few kilometres of a dinosaur park, which we were kind of keen for but, as we got closer, we decided to stop for a glass of wine instead. It seems like that was our decision a lot of the time!
We decided to carry on and find our accommodation in Tulln. This was to be the last night of our camping and the place we were staying at apparently had a big lake nearby that you could swim in.
Onwards we went until we reached our campsite. It was massive and lovely, so we set our tents up and then decided against the swim in favour of some card games, more wine, and getting ready to go out for dinner. Having still not had spargel, we cycled in to the town and found a restaurant that was celebrating Spargelzeit. However, after all that, the menu was so huge that most of us decided on other things, leaving only Ruth and Val to try the local delicacy. We all got food envy.
We were all still in a silly, fun holiday mood so went for ice cream later and then cycled back towards where we were staying, stopping off to have some bike races and laugh a lot.
When we got back, we cycled past a family that were camping near us. Not just any family. We had passed them, and they had passed us, a few times on the day between Aschach and Linz. We had been saying Hi to each other, secretly being pleased when we overtook them and then it turned out they were camping next to us in Grein. We were a bit embarrassed then because they were camping and we opted for the comfort of the cabins.
Anyway, we didn't really pay that much attention to them, until we saw them again in Melk. And Krems. From then on, we kept seeing them all the time, so it was funny when they turned up in Tulln too.
We fully intended to keep the night going when we got back to our tents but, after the long day, loads of food and drink, and the prospect of cycling in to the city after so many days of rural leisure, we opted for an early(ish) night.
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