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A brief postscript from Grein. I went down into the kitchen around 7.30 to pay my account and my grandmotherly hostess was baking “strudel”!- rolling out the pastry. My penultimate overnight stop before Vienna. Melk is similar to Ypps but is tainted by tourists. I am the first to admit that I am one of
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“Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen, The clouded sky is now serene, The god of day — the orb of love, Has hung his ensign high above, The sky is all ablaze…..” Words that sadly are not mine, but rather one of the greatest wordsmiths of the English language in the 19th century- Sir William Schwenck
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There are two wonderful places of interest in Grein, as well as walking the village itself. The Schloss Greinburg – the local palace on the highest hill and secondly the oldest preserved “bourgeois” theatre in Austria! The term bourgeois I guess means a performing space which was not part of a royal Castle or ruling
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My planned stop tonight as I have 4 days to Vienna 200 km distant, calculating out at 50 km a day. I booked into Haus Kloibhofer, a private bed and breakfast. The house is situated on a hill behind Grein. This is one very delightful village! It is nestled into a bend in the mighty
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Lets break this into two parts. The cycle first then the delightful village of Grein. The weather remained dismally depressing – overcast, constant drizzle and a cold breeze. The ride was only about 50 km today! Embarrassing after yesterday’s effort. I don’t so much mind the cold, overcast sky but the rain dampens things dramatically.
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A few pics of where I stayed Tuesday. The town was once part of the territory owned by the Liechtenstein Family as a fiefdom, ‘Lord of Steyregg’ was one of the family’s titles. Predictably it has an “imposing” palace – mainly the consequence of the fact that the rest of the village is tiny! The
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The day dawned! Bleak, blustery and rain. I had not ridden for a day or two and was having withdrawal symptoms. So I set out, calling in to the bike shop in Passau to improve wet weather gear : long trousers and shoe covers. I was otherwise well protected from the waist up. The day
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Travelled to Passsu by train, in fact three. It was painlessly efficient. Passsu is an interesting city on the border between Germany and Austria. It would have been more enjoyable to explore if the sun had been shinning! It’s ancient history includes yet another Baroque cathedral with, it is claimed, the world’s biggest pipe organ,
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It has dawned on me that the younger Asian tourists of whom there seem to be mainly girls travelling in twos or threes, are just as likely to be from South Korea as Japan and indeed, I suspect, an increasing number from mainland China. These girls are mostly still petite and have an addiction to
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The accuracy of the weather bureau in Austria is equal to that of Australia. Today dawned cool and sunny! I had pre booked my bus and train. Bugger, I could have had a delightful cycle trip. Anyway Hallstatt is a tourist hub by virtue of its age and awesome location. The Austrian tourism authority claims
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