In Vienna - the Donauinsel, seeing my second cousin Tina, and bye-bye bikes

A packed day! We did a bit of a longer bike ride today, because I was thinking we may not have the bikes for that much longer. Good thing we did!

This morning we biked along the Donaucanal - not the actual Donau river, but the canal, most of the way to the western end, to the bridge Steinitzsteg. It's very wide, must have originally been a car bridge. Then we were on the Donauinsel - the Danube Island. It's a very long, skinny island that is almost entirely bike paths. Very pleasant, although it was a very warm day. There were little docks along the water, along much of the way. We just biked north, then south on the other side of the island. After an ice cream for Peter, we stopped off at the water park - like playground, but with some outstanding water features. The pictures say it all.

After a rest and lunch in our room, we met my second cousin Tina. She's exactly my age, and I have a vague childhood memory of her - I believe I met her during my stay with Tante Steffi. And I know there's a photo somewhere, of me and her, next to a swing.

Anyway, we arranged over email to meet at a Ubahn station, and met up there, then went to a very nice cafe and chatted for a while. It was great to meet her.

And then (yes, it was a very packed day), I went to the Fahrrad Keller - and sold both bikes for 160 Euros!  I bought them both (mine was used) for 520 Euros, so a net cost of 360 Euros. Not terrible, considering we used them for a month. I could, theoretically, have sold it for much more on the local equivalent of Craigslist (Willhaben.at), and I actually did put an ad up on that site. But it would have been a lot more trouble, and I didn't mind accepting 160 for them, to avoid hassle.

Here's a few more photos, from the rest of the day.

After selling the bikes we rented a Lime scooter - what fun!