The day promises record-breaking heat, so we decide to go to the lake – Konigsee – instead of history.

The scene at Konigsee is a summertime madhouse…

But you get on one of these old fashioned cruisers to glide (no longer chug, they are all electric) across the lake

The views are amazing

The famous view of St. Bartholomew, a little hazy

On the other side of the lake, there’s the church, St. Bartholomew

The people watching is pretty good

Doing adorable things

We decide to get away from the crowds and (of course) take a hike.

We are slightly delayed contemplating this

Hmmm. Again with our alpine flip flops.

But far off we see a glacier and…

Our destination - the Ice Chapel

For scale

Some ways in. You can see the meltwater raining down.

Doing my part to combat climate change…

Then down and back the way we came.

We pick up our bags and hit the road, following the river, mercifully all downhill, towards Salzburg.

As we cross into Austria again, we cross the 2,700 mile mark.

And down into Salzburg, where we dismount for the last time.

Vietnamese and beer while listening to the opera broadcast on the big screen in Kapitalplatz. We are here coinciding with the first few days of the Salzburg Music festival.