At the airport so that’s it for Vienna.

Everything was going smoothly just a relaxing ride along the river. At one point a sign said the path is down a road.
Local told me to go up so I did. Ended up climbing up 1000 feet slowly over two miles and got down fast. So don’t think this is part of path. Frustrating when you think you are at the top of hill and road curves showing more hills to climb.

Had a great ride into Passau. Blue skies and not any wind. So made it the train station early for a change If I had to make any changes there would be two. Go in the direction of Passau to Vienna because of the wind. And second rent a bike and when finished the route drop it off at a destination point and they will send the bike to where it originally came from. You only have a couple of minutes when changing trains to get your bike on. And throwing your gear up onto the train then getting your bike on is difficult when you have people boarding also.

The end

Fortunately a mile down from my makeshift campsite there was a bridge bicyclists can cross river to get on the other side of the river and continue down the path. Can tell how good the path is by all of the people of all ages out there with two panniers bags full and some with sleeping bags. Electric bikes are heavily used. It seems that 90% of the trail is flat. The one thing that make me uncomfortable is on the narrower roads there is not a lot of room for cars to pass you.
It is nice that the campgrounds are about 15 Euros a night. For bike tenters they basically just set off some land with few amenities which is what bikers need

Took a tour of Melk Abby. It was started in 1089 the two previous buildings were burned and this one was built on 1700’s. If you ever in the neighborhood it is definitely a place to go, especially the church.It is strange to be on the path and approach a secure building with a barrier for cars to enter and on the side is an entry for bicycles to do the path.Was happily biking toward Grein and take the ferry to the other side of the river. At the entrance to load a sign said the start service on May 20. It was late but along the path there was a giant box that was big enough for me to hide the bike and me. Left at daylight just to make sure no one noticed. Wild camping is illegal in Austria

First part of the journey was a long the Danube. A lot of barge traffic on the river. The width of the river is impressive. The second half of the day started to be older towns on the other side of the river with a more European feel. With some castles in the hillside. Must also be the part cruise ships really like as you can see two floating around. Durenstein was packed with visitors so it was got tangled up with cruise visitors when I was there.When I looked at the forecast in December average high was around 70. Today and through when I arrive in Passau it will be a high of 60. The day after it will be starting be in the low 70’s again. And it doesn’t rain much. Need one more day of rain to get my normal half of days on bike tour it rains. For the Danube Delta tour the suggested a hard shell rain jacket as it gets colder there. Didn’t relish carring it round on my bike part of the trip. Slept wearing it so glad I did have it with me.

Cannot say there was anything spectacular today.  It was just a really nice ride. Went out of Vienna along the Danube River, small city then into the woods before going back along the river. 
Most of the trail is either along the cycle path or off road paths. Some are long narrow roads with minimal traffic which remind me of alley ways. There are so many cyclists drivers are used to them so they would not be surprised by seeing one.
Have noticed few convince stores along the way. Outside of Vienna seems to be local run stores as opposed to chains. Seems strange vending machines selling wine and cigarettes in a vending machine.
Even though it is mid May and rained in the morning there were four bicyclists camping the night.

Everything went smoothly entering Vienna. Passport was stamped in Paris without any questions. Had prepared a spiel about what I was going to do and the questions should be prepared for. When leaving the airport if you have anything with duty tax to report to agent everyone else you can leave. Buses and trains you just board and they assumed you have paid if not hefty fine. Reportedly they have people checking to see if you did.
The biking paths are all over the city. And they are used a lot. Twenty years ago there was little but during COVID biking became very popular.   And the city made a lot infrastructure changes. 
My camera was a little but larger than the panniers bag so it might have fallen out somewhere. Went back to where the last picture I took and could not find it. Forr this trip it doesn’t matter much. So the pictures here from my phone.