tutleymutleytextiles
Connect!
  • HOME
  • Spinning Pet Fur
  • What to do if you would like your pet's fur spun into yarn
  • Art and a cartoon or three
  • Workshops and Courses
  • contact - and testimonials
  • Blog
  • links

Monday June 6th: Eggesdorf – Vienna                                                            44.3 miles (1577.44miles total).

12/6/2016

0 Comments

 
​Woke up at 6am and got up (see – I CAN do it!) as I needed to clean the bicycle.  I was worried about the effect all that fine clay would have on the chain (let alone the other parts of Rowenna) and also didn’t want to be carrying around half a ton of dry mud on top of the load I normally carry.  I cadged a bucket of water from an elderly lady from across the road (she was a little suspicious, I think!).  I set to rubbing a lot of the, by now, dried mud off spokes and metal with an old toothbrush (which worked a treat).  Took me until 11am to have breakfast, remove the wheels and get rid of most of the mud, re-oil the chain and reload.  (oh, and cut my toenails).   Time to move on.
 
Felt tired all day – after that early start, I guess – but reached Vienna after only one little circuit in the outskirts of the town itself, where a sign pointed the WRONG way.   I had fish and chips in a hotel en route – there was a huge amount, which sort of made up for the larger amount I was paying.  I cycled along most of the Marchfeldkanal and felt befuddled by the sheer size of Vienna.  I had a hearty bean soup and Apricot smoothie at Café/restaurant Theo near Franz-Josefs-Kai (alongside the little Danube Canal) whilst looking for a place to stay on the macbook (what would I do without it?) – and found the wonderful Wombat’s Hostel next door to the Naschmarkt. 
 
Riding to Wombat’s was amazing – I love the graffiti in town – serious graffiti all along the railway arches.  There are some fabulous artists around.  I ride past huge monuments and pedestrianised squares with the surrounding buildings all lit up with a frieze of lights.  Vienna is pomp and majesty – the buildings like rows of decorated cakes – a feast to look at. 
 
Wombat’s Hostel comes highly recommended by me, if you’re ever in town – and they can now be found in London as well as other European cities.  There is a 24hour reception – and the desk was heaving when I got there, even at 11pm.  The staff were young and enthusiastic, helpful, knowledgeable and friendly.  The rooms themselves (and I was in a 6 bed dormitory) were clean and spacious and nicely laid out with a locker included.  There’s the usual hostel stuff of making your own bed, stripping it in the morning – and the hostel makes its money by charging a basic, no frills rate and then adding extra if you want a towel, or breakfast or similar – but I can live with that.  Wifi was free (or WLAN as they call it in Deutsch), as was leaving luggage and the bicycle while I went off to explore.   I like the ambience and the concept: there was a lot of cushioned platforms downstairs with plugs for laptops and phones.  (I laughed when I looked around when I came downstairs in the morning – EVERYONE had their smartphones out and were tapping away).  The ‘Wombar’ next door to this lounging area had a pool table and drinking games – even at midnight, there was a game of giant jenga going on and the place was packed. 
 
I plan to stay in Vienna a couple days to rest and sightsee again. 
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Tutleymutley

    A newly retired Terri following her heart into a world of woolly creativity.  Live the dream

    Archives

    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013

    Categories

    All
    Artyfart
    Knitting Workshops
    MM Sydney Memorial Tour
    Pet Fur
    Retreat
    Weaving
    Woolly Festivals

    RSS Feed

Picture
I 




contact Terri on 07595736489   
I spin pet hair including dog hair, cat brushings and angora rabbit

Proudly powered by Weebly