You can see I’m getting sloppier in the execution of (as well as the writing about) the Rundumadum hiking trail. Half of 18? Really? I don’t think it’s entirely my new hiking partner’s fault, but I must say he’s more ambitious than I am (trying to do two or three at a time) and in this case we didn’t manage to do the whole two stretches on 2 May 2021. (You can see I’m trying to catch up in my reporting of progress, even though I in this case didn’t take any photos.)
It may have been the discouragement of arriving at the U2 Seestadt station and then not being able to find the bus we were supposed to take (and this on a Sunday when nothing runs as often as on other days) so having to wait almost half an hour or it might have been the considerable and rather unpleasant wind blowing across that very flat part of Vienna (Transdanubia) on a steely gray day or it could have been the frustration of the detour along the road instead of through the fields ostensibly because of construction, where the U-Bahn line they were supposed to be working on was completed several years ago. (It turns out the City of Vienna is not perfect! ;-))
In any case, we did get discouraged and stopped halfway through the second stretch. We enjoyed the walk through neighborhoods neither of us knew before, though, as well as through fields that may not much longer be fields (this part of Vienna is being developed very rapidly) and past Himmelteich (~ Heaven’s Pond), one of the small bodies of water that is so common in the east of Vienna. We also enjoyed a picnic before we got the underground back to the city center, eating cheddar and spinach muffins and bananas in an out-of-the-wind spot in what will one day be a park across the street from Nelson-Mandela-Platz.
Sadly, all I have to report …
Trail 17
Distance: 3.7 km
Time: 1 hr to 1 hr and 15 mins
Link: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/wald/freizeit/wandern/rundumadum/etappe17.html
Trail 18
Distance (if you do the whole thing): 4.1 km
Time: 1 to 1.5 hrs
Link: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/wald/freizeit/wandern/rundumadum/etappe18.html
ecbinvienna 
You are making me miss Vienna more than ever! Do you know if Americans can visit yet?
Sorry! 😉
I haven’t had a chance to wrap my head around the latest information, but here is a link to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna with updates: https://at.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/
Perhaps that will help?
Please let me know if you do make it over. I’d love to have some coffee with you and compare Vienna stories.
Thanks for that!