Day 12: Sat 8 Aug – Zwentendorf to Vienna

Ride: 70km

Along the way to Vienna, we stopped at Klosterneubergand and had a look around the Castle/Palace/Cathedral which was very spectacular. 

Arrived in Vienna quite early but took ages to find the hotel as Graham was reading the map wrong! Saw Kunst Haus Wien, an art museum focusing on the works of Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

Graham decided he will go home tomorrow. I don’t think he is well and he misses Sylvia who is due to attend a specialist appointment soon. I decided I had had enough of big cities and either had to get back into the countryside or go home. It’s going to cost a bit either way though.

Cable bridge on the outskirts of Vienna

Larger than life-sized statues of famous 'Burghers" (Attila the hun, etc) near Vienna

Klosterneuburg Monastery near Vienna, a twelfth century Augustinian monastery of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in 1114





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