Arrived in Vienna - the biking part of the trip is over

It's with some regret that I'm settled in now, to our hotel in Vienna (Ibis Syles Messe Prater).  It's nice to be in Vienna - though we have 4 whole days, which may get a little long - but I've enjoyed the biking so much, and seeing so many new things every day. I will miss that tremendously.

We got a relatively early start from Tulln, skipping the breakfast buffet, which was extra (18 Euros!). We stopped at a Spar grocery store for some rolls, and yogurt, and that was fine. The bike trails in Tulln are very nice and well marked. And there were a tremendous number of people on them, and also the whole way to Vienna as well. Most were weekend bikers on racing bikes, zipping past us.

There was a long section of interesting houses on the right (we were on the right hand side of the river, going downstream). They were smaller houses, often built on stilts, and BELOW the level of the Danube. We were biking  on a large levee above them.

Here's a few pictures from the trip.

The riverfront area in Tulln

Breakfast on a bench

Some of the interesting little houses, often on stilts, that we saw after Tulln

At a park near Klosterneuberg, there was an old miniature sit-on train track - huge, going around a large swath of the park - that was not open anymore. There was a sign - the current owner, now older, want to pass it on to new owners, but are having a hard time finding someone.

The first time in a while we've seen huge underpasses like this

We had some sausages and a roll here

This is one of those bike tour boats - if you look carefully, you can see the bikes on the top deck

The bike trail, and the signage for it, has been great for a long time now. Going into Vienna it's got more complicated - I had to figure out which specific bike trail to take. For most of our biking I've used the app OMSAnd, because it has great offline map service. But in cities, I've used Google Maps - they seem to have very up-to-date information.

After resting at the hotel, we went to the Haus Der Music - kind of a music museum. Some of it was well done, but there were also some very, very wordy descriptions of every single conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, since around 1800.

Here's a few pictures from our walk to the museum (it was HOT! should have taken the bikes) and then walking back, along the famous Kaertnerstrasse.

Phone booths! Really. I didn't check to see whether they were functional

At the "House of Music" museum Peter practiced his piano. There were weird acoustics there - it was like being at the bottom of a well

Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic

The famous street Kaerntnergasse

St Stephans Cathedral - the most famous and largest in all of Vienna