Blog ≫ 2025 ≫ Holiday 2025 - Vienna, again
Back in Vienna again, and it's Saturday morning. You know what that means? Find a parkrun!
I had already plotted it out, I could get the underground to Donaupark. A friend had said I'd like it, he'd done it, he got his best time there. No way it can have been as hot as this though. As expected with overseas parkruns, most of the people are tourists on holiday. I got talking to a family from somewhere posh in the UK that I forget, they were also on a train based holiday like us. They had got a sleeper carriage in to Vienna from somewhere else though. We should do that. Also got talking to a Canadian guy, and when it came to the shout outs for people doing a milestone he told them today was my two hundredth. I had to tell someone, though I'm not even sure I would have got a mention back at home. I got a little round of applause, but it didn't do much for my time. I said it was hot. The course is three times round the park, and it is indeed very flat and very pleasant, and there's a water fountain part way time. That probably added on a few seconds stopping for a drink.
I headed back to the hotel in plenty of time for us to check out, not like when we left Budapest. We had a train to get to Zurich, via Munich. Would it go smoothly? We had reserved seats this time! Spoiler: it would not go smoothly. I already wrote this one up, so now we're mostly caught up. I can get on to Italy, but might do that another day.