Klumpendorf Klots
Bike past cable lift to Naggl, sit briefly on bench with view before being summonsed to meet a running Larry at Tschacherei. Rush to Intersport, hand back bike, and walk to T where we sit facing the hill drinking cappucino…
Schmaltztraten & Larry
Bike the high route past Weisse Wand to the wonderfully named Schmaltztraten, before dropping down to Neustift and Techendorf. Total trip over 4 hours, little more than 13km. Meet Mungo and Trude in T, go to Wunder Bar for drinks.…
Naggler Alm MTB
Boring finances first. Then on to the bike and up to Naggler Alm with 2 rests. Many people, weather sunny with clouds. Apfelspritz and tasty topfenstrudel at Tschatcheria. Mungo exhausted from cleaning balcony. All excited as Laurence coming later –…
Tschabischer
Late start, walk to Tschabisher for bretljause and coffees. Distant thunder closes in slowly so we scuttle back home. Rain starts as soon as we arrive and continues for the first part of the night.
Train, Reggie & Heinz
Catch 1025 train from Hauptbahnhof to Greifenburg via Villach, spending much of the time in the restaurant car. Trude kindly picks us up. In the evening Reggie and Heinz visit.
Shopping & Madai
Too much time spent shopping (Swatch, Hervis in Maria Hilferstr for biking gear, Billa), then meet Heidi, Axel, Larry, Cori, Teri at Madai. Drinks at Wenzel’s, finish with flourish at Schwartzenberg würstel stand. 430am back home! And then Madai! Followed…
A slow day
Late start, to Wahringer and Spar carrying a broom, then the bike shop for a helmet (too much or too bad), lunch on the terrace, back to the post office, and spritzers at Turkenschanz.
Maria Hilfer Hola again
First trip out to Ober St Veit to hunt for garden set in Leiner for Trude. Chairs ordered, then to Maria Hilfer Str for desperate coffee and Thai soup. The hunt for a bike helmet was not very successful, but…
Augustinerkirche
11am mass, Organ Mass by Haydn, followed by würstel stand and coffee at Palm Haus. Heat inspires us to seek the cool of Weimarer Str. Late afternoon stroll to Türkenschanz for a sippers at Diglas.
Stupendous Verdi Requiem
Friday 13th – a suitably great day! Brilliant evening catching a 530pm coach for the Grafenegg Festival. Proseccos in an open-air bar, loose wander on the lawn, then to the open-air concert auditorium for the opening event, Verdi’s Requiem. A…
421pm Vienna train
Walk round Camping while poor Mungo beavers away sorting out apartment. Lunch, off to Greiffenburg. 5hrs in train. Great weather.