Day Three
The view from the front of the house. And the back upon leaving, below.
A warmer day awaits. On the way out of the town of Fertorakos, we go to the amazing limestone quarry at the top of the hill. Quarried since Roman times, it was supplied St Stephans in Vienna and hosted Opera since 1935. The front of the flyer is below.
We catch the ferry again to the eastern shore and then head north.
We have a very nice upmarket lunch at Illmitz which has the distinction of being the lowest town in Austria, just 114m above sea level.
The cycleway is now quite heavily used as it is the Friday of a long weekend in what is Austria's premier summer getaway. The day is warmer.
A Swiss gentlemen blows his Alpine horn at a bike stop just outside the holiday town of Neuseidler, which has a very busy main road running through it. We manage to find a cafe serving very nice coffee and vegan cake.
With the area being so flat and windy, there are lots of windfarms around. We head north to get to the closest, they are, of course, surprisingly far away. And up on a ridge.
This is my good self infront of an E66, which is the same machine they have in Albany, so making the project around 15 years old. Newer, bigger, slower spinning machines are further away in the distance. They are mostly Enercons, but we also spot some Vestas and Nordex machines.
Last shot is of Susanna near the station where we catch a train back to Vienna.
Total km was 225km over the 3 days, 12 and 1/2 hrs on the bike meaning an average speed less than 20km/hr - surfaces ranged from silky smooth bitumen to walk over sand (ok, couple of hundred metres only but it was unavoidable etc) country. Around 2000 vertical metres of climb and descent.