As I write this we are over 3 months into our adventure of using bicycles as our primary mode of transportation. We are now in England having cycled here from Vienna except for a train journey from Passau to Frankfurt in Germany (and the ferry across the Strait of Dover).
We flew to Vienna from Athens, as our research indicated that it would be a good city to purchase used bicycles in, it is on the EuroVelo 6 route, and the price was right. (Unfortunately, the logistics of getting through Eastern Europe safety overland proved to be too difficult/expensive, so we chose to fly to the safe biking routes.)
How lucky were we?! Right away Vienna felt like an oasis. Bike paths and pedestrian infrastructure & playgrounds everywhere. We stayed near the Prater amusement park, so not even in the downtown core. These first few photos are from the huge Prater park.
We saw so many great playgrounds around Vienna, and later along the EV6.
We walked ~6 km to get to the used bike store that we ended up purchasing 5 bikes, 5 helmets and 2 locks from. Once we were on the bikes, it was a lot harder for me to take pictures. Here are a few cool things I was able to snap photos of while walking that day, 26 March.
Too much good stuff to talk about. I’m going to have to do a second post on the bike infrastructure specifically. Here are more pics of miscellaneous good ideas in Vienna:
Carbon conscious COVID dodging family travel 
Interesting about the good public and cycling infrastructure. I say lots of photos of WCs in public places – I find that facilities are not well provided in the GTA public areas. If they are, it is hit and miss on cleanliness. Are the WCs self-cleaning – first I saw that was when we visited Paris.
BTW. Side note. Today is July 18 … been up north since July 4. Internet access is very poor. Today, we are poaching WIFI from our the municipal library in the town of Kearney, population 800. So, I am trying to catch up on the SLJCC posts from July 4. I am finding that I cannot comment – error message says that SLJCC had closed down the site. I doubt if you would have done so. I am, however, able to respond to your Carbon Conscious blog. H’mm. I’ll figure out eventually. Hugs to the family! Back to the lake – tough life being retired :). Be well.
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Back home, July 22. Able to access SJLCC blog-site again! Enjoying catching up on three weeks of SJLCC posts!
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Some washrooms are self cleaning, most are not.
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