Zwentendorf to Vienna

Our hostess made such an effort to fix us breakfast before we hit the road, but it wasn't long before we found our first coffee shop of the day.

Photo taken by our kind host.

Just another chateau.

Rat... part of Attila's retinue in this group of bronze statues.

On the left, King Etzal and his daughter.

Sachertorte
Back on the trail which by now is showing signs and distances to Vienna.

It was a beautiful path, and easy to follow.
We sweltered in the heat of the midday sun going up the hill to Klosterneuberg and were glad to be inside in the cool.

Among the treasures here was this royal crown.
With the temperatures still around 26, we head on toward Vienna.
That was the easy part. Once we left the bike path and turned into the city it was a struggle to find the ring road bike path, navigate between trams and traffic or even find road signs when we needed them. We both "gave up" even trying to figure it out at different times.
I tried my phone on Google maps but the traffic drowned siris voice.
Laura got a real map and directions from a nice hotel. Passersby and helpful taxi drivers all pointed us back to streets we had just biked until somehow we hit the right direction and the cunning plan of following other cyclists took us close enough to our hotel for us to be on the 'your hotel is here' map we had printed in NZ.
By this stage the phone battery was dead and so were we.


Stats:
60km
Total: 263
Steps:6826