Linz to Grein
From Mathausen, we decide to venture off and take a secondary route away from the river. It took us to narrow roads carved thru a forest with the smell of wet pine lingering in the air.

To mark the roads as cycling paths, they have erected cycling inspired art. For some reason, we end back on the primary route closest to the river.

As we head closer to Grein, we pass by fields of canola with their yellow flowers blanketing the valley flatland.

As we get to Grein, the bikeway again hugs the river bank.

It ends at a river port where the path merges with a busy highway. Just crossover and the main center is just behind.
Top: canola fields blanketing the valley flatland

bottom: bike art - giant bike and log man riding a bike
top: Grein town center

right: bike art in front of Grein coffee shop
Grein is a charming small town with 17th century houses with Baroque facades. You can walk the main stretch in minutes. Tonights lodging is at Gasthof Strudengau where we bunked 4 to a room. At 22 Euros a person with a private bath and breakfast, it wasn't bad. Dinner was conveniently at the hotel restaurant below. A sleepy town where the chic place to hangout after dinner was a modernly decorated coffee shop with a wide variety of cakes and pastries.
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