{"id":4120,"date":"2024-05-18T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2024-07-18T19:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T23:28:44","slug":"saturday-may-18-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/saturday-may-18-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 18, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next day we wandered around a good bit. It\u2019s really lovely city! Beautiful architecture.<\/p>\n

We went to a butterfly house. The blue ones are blue morphos.
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Visited several churches.
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Then I went to a concert back at Schonbrun Palace.
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Thursday, we went to see Lipizzaner stallions. The full shows were only on weekends and we would be gone by then, so we went to a training session. Had hoped it would be a practice run for the full show, but it was mostly horses walking in circles, sometimes using fancy footwork.
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Next, we went to the Austrian Imperial Treasury where they keep lots of old treasures.
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Followed by a history museum.
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Then, after more wandering, we went to the Prater, an amusement park.<\/p>\n

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Rick in the middle, then on the left:
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From the Ferris wheel:
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Yesterday we left Vienna. The weather prediction was for rain, so we left relatively early (for us). Got to the intersection of a village called Orth, where supposedly there was a ferry across the Danube. But nope. It seemed like the rain was likely to hit any time, so we got a recommendation for a place to stay in Orth – Pension Maria (pension being a B&B). It was lovely and this morning they served a wonderful breakfast!<\/p>\n

This morning, we headed out, still on the north side of the Danube. A lot of it looked like this:<\/p>\n

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But there were little wetland areas along the way. Oh, and I saw a fox crossing the bike path! Too fast for me to get a photo of course.<\/p>\n

We kept going and somewhere along the line, we crossed out of Austria, into Slovakia.<\/p>\n

About halfway from Orth to Bratislava, we visited another castle.
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It\u2019s on top of that hill! The path was a 13% incline, so we parked the bikes at one point and hiked up. (Oh! My calves!)
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Great overlook! Here is a picture where you can see a white spiked thing in the distance. It\u2019s the bridge we took to cross the Danube to reach the castle, which was in Hainburg.\"\"<\/p>\n

We eat a lot of snacks as we bike to keep up our energy. Here is Rick counting exactly how many chocolate-covered banana treats are in a box. (48)
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\nOh yes, with underwear and socks drying on a line.<\/p>\n

And here is our favorite type of food store, because they (sometimes) sell wafflen, these sugary waffles. Delish! Also, a tart cherry juice that is yummy and not THAT tart.<\/p>\n

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The bike path into Bratislava was great! Roomy bike and pedestrian paths are built under the main car bridge, and tons of people were using it.<\/p>\n

Here are views of Bratislava as we biked in, including one from the bridge going north into the city.<\/p>\n

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All the countries we\u2019ve been in essentially have had English as a second language. Even here in Slovakia.
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That\u2019s a picture taken at the Bratislava train station. We took a train from Bratislava to Komarno, Slovakia. Here is the hotel we are in at Komarno tonight.
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The next day we wandered around a good bit. It\u2019s really lovely city! Beautiful architecture. We went to a butterfly house. The blue ones are blue morphos. Visited several churches. Then I went to a concert back at Schonbrun Palace. Thursday, we went to see Lipizzaner stallions. The full shows were only on weekends and … Continue reading “Saturday, May 18, 2024”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4162,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}