London to Auckland

We’ve washed up Erlangen on the Regnitz River and, happily, we’re still on schedule. The weather’s been a bit cold and miserable and we’re a little tired of the terrain, being rivers and locks, but all good as far as progress goes. We’re going hell for leather to make a 4 pm meeting on Friday with the Kinder Krebs Hilfe children’s cancer organisation in Vienna, Austria. I think they’re planning a little party!

The German police have been absolutely fantastic after an initial briefing to discuss our ‘style’. They’ve been letting other craft on the waterways know to keep out the way of the jet-skiing lunatics and have offered to help us on our way. That’s even though we broke the 13km an hour speed restriction on the 170km long Main Donau Canal, which links the Rhine with the Danube in Austria (the cops did express their disappointment in that).

We were waiting to enter yet another lock and dispatched the mad Croatian to a nearby village for coffee. Not only did he get coffee, he managed to score a monstrous pizza. So we’re riding along eating pieces of pizza as large as dinner plates. He’s a team player that guy.

Great marina for the night. Docks for our three jet-skis (one euro each), a room to sleep in and beer in the fridge (payment by way of honesty box).

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