Danube Bike Tour Day 27: Vienna to Petronell-Carnuntum
Posted by Cassie, December 3rd, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Distance: 53km
Today was the first nice day we had in a long time. When we left Vienna, the sun was shining! We rode out of Vienna through Prater Park. When we had walked around Prater Park last night, we only explored a small part of the enormous park. It took a long time to ride through the huge park!
Riding through Prater Park
Just as we got out of Vienna, I got a flat tire. When I took the tire off, I found a big shard of metal that had pierced through the tire. There was a big gash in the inner tube that was really easy to spot. This was only our second flat tire of the trip caused by a puncture, so our Kevlar tires did a good job of preventing flat tires.
We rode along the Danube once we left Vienna. Since it was a nice day, there were people hanging out at the park by the river. I saw an old man that appeared to be sun bathing in the nude, but I did not want to check to be certain. 🙂 We left the river to ride through a chemical plant with big tanks, but after we passed the chemical plant, we ran into road construction that completely blocked the road. We had an adventure riding on gravel roads to get around the construction. We were so close the first time we made it back to the main bike route, but the road was still blocked off for the construction. But, we finally made it back to the bike route! The bike route went through the Danube National Park, and it was really pretty riding through the forest along the river. The bike path was absolutely straight, and it reminded us of driving down I-88 in Illinois on the way to Chicago. 🙂
Absolutely straight bike path!
When we arrived in Hainburg, it was so nice outside that we decided to take a detour and go to Petronell-Carnuntum where there was a campground. We had not been able to camp for about two weeks, so it was exciting to have weather nice enough to camp! We had some trouble finding the campground. We went to where the campground was marked on the map, but all that was there was a big field. We were about to ride into town to stay at a guesthouse when we saw a sign for the campground. We found the campground, and we realized that it was not marked correctly on the map. The campground was together with a restaurant and indoor tennis courts, which was an interesting combination. 🙂
Tennis and Camping - a fun combination!
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