Ride: 60km
Although we arrived in Vienna
3 days ago and have been on a couple of nice rides, it doesn't really feel like
we have yet started a cycling tour. Today is THE day; pack our bikes and ride out with all our
"stuff" on board. One last yummy breaky at the Mercure Motel and on our way.
Great to be on the bike. The ride
out of Vienna
was a breeze, literally, as we had a lovely tail wind all day. The mainly off-road bike paths made the trip
today an absolute pleasure. At one stage
the bike path was so wide and straight that you could have landed a B747 on
it. Even Wendy would have been happy to
be riding today, nice smooth paths, flat as a tack with a tail wind; cyclists'
heaven!
There were predictions of showers but true to form of Weather Forecasters
everywhere thankfully they got it wrong as it was fine and sunny.
Our accommodation tonight is clean and very neat and a couple of km from a
significant Roman Ruin - Petronell Carnuntum - including a couple of nice
amphitheatre. This quiet little village
is on the banks of the Danube and is picture
perfect.
No mishaps or problems today except the members of the team with paper maps
had to prevent the three guys with fancy GPSs from getting us lost. Call me old fashion but I've never had a map
run out of batteries yet and as long as you orientate the map correctly and
keep an eye on your location it will not lead you up too many dead-end roads or
take you on a wild goose chase. And it
is much quicker with a map.
Tomorrow we cross our first border to enter Slovakia
briefly before crossing into Hungary
a couple of hours later.
Saw the strangest sight today - we came over a rise to see two people (a
man and a woman) picking wild fruit. As we drew nearer we saw that the lady was
fairly old and was wearing some form of lose fitting jump-suit. Then we did a double take as the old lady
was wearing absolutely nothing, except a very dark all-over tan. We hoped that there weren't any green ants
(if they have such a thing in Austria)
in the cherry tree they were raiding.
Each to his or her own, she didn't appear to be doing anyone any harm.
1,000 year old (parts of it) Church at Bad Deutsch Altenburg (BDA)
Cemetery at BDA
An Austrian country house
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