#10: Back to Salzburg

We didn't have time to bike the Alpe-Adria route back to Salzburg. So we had to figure out a way to get the bikes and our luggage and ourselves back to the Salzburg airport.

Grado is too small to have a train station. Using public transportation in Italy, we would have had to piece together an awkward, time-consuming combination of bus and train rides for the return.

So Markus did some sleuthing on German online cycling sites, and found a guy from Salzburg who runs a shuttle with a bike trailer between Grado and Salzburg a couple times a week.

The trailer only holds 8 bikes--so you have to reserve a spot in advance. In the off-season, that wasn't an issue.

Early Saturday morning, we met the shuttle driver at a small gas station in Grado. Four other cyclists showed up as well. We loaded our bikes on the trailer and headed back. One couple got dropped off halfway to Salzburg, and Markus snapped this pic...

When we arrived at the Salzburg airport a few hours later, Markus sighed and said,

"I could get back on my bike and do it all over again!"

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