Today we carried on with the second half of Trail 18 and more than all of Trail 19 (we missed a sign and probably went about 2 kms out of our way). And today I have photos! 🙂
It was a beautiful sunny day (although with such a wind that a friend sent a message: “Hopefully you will not get blown away!”) with beautiful flowers (see above), including lots of elderflowers (visible on the left of the photo below), which my hiking partner collected to make syrup, and some interesting wildlife. We saw a bird that neither of us had ever seen before and I couldn’t find in my field guide and which I think may, in fact, be a pet that escaped and is now living it up in the fields of the 22nd district. In shape it had some similarities to a dove but was much larger, had bright blue markings on its head, and interesting black and white striping on its tail. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
We were still in a very flat part of Vienna with scattered small bodies of water. It is still quite rural (see below) and had horses! As with other parts of the Rundumadum trail, I was amazed to see food being grown on a relatively large scale (the 10th district also has proper fields with grain and vegetables). From the underground train you can see extensive greenhouses and the paths we took today were almost all through open fields. Really extraordinary for a city of almost two million people. Long may it last.
This was such a nice stretch that I would like to come back and perhaps even swim in the Süßenbrunner Teiche (ponds).
Trail 18
Distance: 4.1 km
Time: 1 to 1.5 hrs
Link: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/wald/freizeit/wandern/rundumadum/etappe18.html
Trail 19
Distance: 5.1 (if you do it right ;-))
Time: 1 hr 15 mins to 1 hr 45 mins
Link: https://www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/wald/freizeit/wandern/rundumadum/etappe19.html
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Just to let you know: your “Testing” note came through on my email, but not on your blog site! I don’t know what’s happening to WordPress! I hate the new formatting with “blocks”. Just thought you’d like to know.
Thank you for letting me know! I actually deleted the post (all is said was “testing”) once I saw that it had appeared. I agree entirely about the “blocks”. Not an improvement, in my opinion!