Vienna and its surroundings

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I decided to go to Vienna to see a cousin, Lucia, who is there doing her post-doc. By my arrival she suggested me the next day program: to bike around the small villages near Vienna. I seams that she had read my thoughts, I was tired of cities, people, museums, monuments… It would be great to spend a day biking near nature.

From Vienna we got a train to Tulln where we met her workmates and got the bikes. We got a train to Melk. From there we biked to Spitz where we stopped to have lunch. Then we continued to Krems, passing through small villages, wineries, apple, plum and apricot trees… On our way we stopped at Dürstein to enjoy the landscape. We end up the tour in Hadersdorf, in a Heuriger, where we had the local wine. It was incredible to see how they are prepared to cycling. There are bike road all over Austria. One can go anywhere by bike, the special bike roads are by the freeway, or train rail, or the Danube, or through the woods… I loved it.

Following day we went back to Vienna to visit the city center. It was raining a lot and it made difficult to appreciate the beauty of the monuments and buildings. We decided than to appreciate the cafes and had a Viennese famous chocolate cake, the sacher torte. We end up the day in Grinzing to drink the local wine and have a Wiener Schnitzel.

On my third day in the city there was a little of sunlight. I took advantaged of it and I went downtown to photograph. Later that day I got a train to Bratislava.

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