When I made arrangements to stay with Doris, she told me about this bike ride she was planning on going on, organized through some of her CouchSurfing friends. She invited me to go alone, considering it was going to be on one of the days that I was staying with her, and it couldn't have worked out any more perfectly. We spent day two together with a group of about 20 Vienna CouchSurfing friends riding bikes along the Danube River in the Wachau Valley.
This guy named Dominick organized the entire thing-- from buying the train tickets, to having a bike rental company meet us at the train station in Krems, to planning lunch at a restaurant in Spitz, to giving us a tour of Krems, his hometown.
We met the group at the train station in Vienna early in the morning, and took the train to a smaller city called Krems, where we began. We rented bikes, and hit the road, riding along the Danube River the entire way. After riding a leisurely five miles through vineyards, apricot fields, and beautiful mountains, we reached Spitz, where we stopped for lunch before crossing the river on the ferry and turning around back to Krems.
Doris and I on the Danube River
Crossing the Danube River on the Ferry
Famous blue church in one of the towns we rode through
At the end of the day, we got back on the train to head back into Vienna around 7 pm. Doris had one other treat that she insisted I had to experience in Vienna. We took the metro to this popular ice cream shop called Tichy, where they make a traditional Viennese dessert, called Eismarillenknödel-- a ball of ice cream with apricot mousse in the center, rolled in cookie crumbs. Literally the best thing I had in Vienna. In face, I went back on my own the next day and made lunch out of it.
Eismarillenknöde - I will name my firstborn after this delicacy
