Cycling the Blue Danube: Go with the flow

By Richard Tulloch
Updated October 28 2014 - 12:14pm, first published 11:18am
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Postcard: Grein is as beautiful up close as it seems from afar. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Postcard: Grein is as beautiful up close as it seems from afar. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch
Name only: The Danube wasn't blue, but there was plenty of colour on either side of its banks. Photo: Richard Tulloch

We cyclists hate stopping. When you stop pedalling a bike, it starts to wobble, then topples over. It takes far more effort to get a bike moving than it does to keep it rolling along at a steady speed.