etc... It was sadly (for me) dominated by the Eurostar, which Austria
is hosting along with Switzerland for the rest of June. Although I
can get into team sports, and there was no real disruptive hooligan
madness or whatever, the city was covered with huge inflated socccer
balls and adidas sneaker simulacras, etc. All the major attractions
were affected. As soon as I hot there, I felt a huge and overwhelming
need to escape, and quickly realized I could not spend the 4 nights I
had planned.
Really, this is no reflection on Vienna, which I found lovely, but I
think the culmination of so much time in cities, and the masses of
football fanatics painted in their nations colors, zigzagging drukenly
through the metro just made it clear that I needed an intra-holiday
holiday. I went to a bike rental place, and sketched out a 3 night, 4
day plan to bike through Lower Austria. I packed my panniers and was
on a train to Passau by 7am the next morning.
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