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This weekend was my first motorcycle tour around Vienna. I loaded my camping gear as if I was planning a long trip and if the opportunity was right, I was prepared to stay camping. Sunny weather, no schedule and no planning, good spirit and only the desire to discover the world around Vienna. Unfortunately, I will have to keep this report short as the camera is still unavailable and the words actually need pictures to accompany the story.

Getting out of Vienna was the difficult part. I had decided to travel north and choose direction to the area above- and parallel to the river Danube. Once I got out of the city, the surrounding was a wonderful mix of smaller villages and country roads in a hillside country, farmer’s nature. The wine-grape plants beautifully red and yellow colored, leaves pretending to be blossom. Sometimes I drove through the center of a village, passing narrow roads perfect enclosures to amplify the roaring sound from the exhaust.

Rabbits, biiiiig rabbits!

Near Vienna, the farmer roads are all closed to other traffic. But at some point, I started to realize that more-and-more roads were open to all traffic. Invitation to explore and discover! Driving the BMW motorcycle, I always feel tempted to explore the dirt roads and drive off into nature. It only took 2 or three minutes driving to suddenly find three running rabbits, three magnificent silhouettes running along the rim of a hill. They disappeared over the top of the hill and I continued along my path, following the curve of the path along the foot of the hill and once I got at the other side, there they were again! Passing only 10 or 20 meters in front of me! One instant thought occurred to me: ‘how can people for God’s sake hunt these animals?!’.. It’s Beautiful!

Imagine driving along this grace for hundreds meters!

I continued the ride with these thoughts in mind until several loud, dangling sounds distracted the peace! I looked back, to find out that my passenger seat had come off and I was loosing my tools from the toolbox underneath! Shoot! So: I pulled over and stopped immediately, shut down the motorcycle and started walking back along the track. Upon returning with my passenger seat and all tools I could find, I found some company near my motorcycle: 2 deer were nervously looking at me from a distance of no more than 50 meters! I continued to return to my motorcycle and I placed everything back where it belonged, securing the passenger seat with a spare belt to avoid the same procedure. All the time, I was observed by the deer who meanwhile had become more relaxed. So I decided to approach them a couple of meters and sit in the grass. We spent a relaxed 15 minute brake together, sharing the peace between the three of us. I have to say: I can not recall my thoughts or feelings of those 15 minutes anymore. Those 15 minutes are gone, I call it a moment of freedom! To me it were just 15 minutes, but my 2 companions of that moment LIVE the freedom almost full time! I envy them..

At some point, the deer decided to leave and they passed me in graceful gallop. I returned to my motorcycle, started and followed them as they were galloping parallel to my track. To my pleasure, at some point 5 females joined the 2 males! Wooooww!……

Some time later (time had gotten subjective), I got a puncture in my rear tire. Since I had packed my travel gear, I had all necessary tools with me to repair my tire and within half an hour (including a short and friendly talk with a passing farmer) I was on the road again!