Haydn Tour - April 2016 - Bruckner Page

Up at 07:15 & away at 08:35 on a lovely day which stayed that way. Getting out of Regensburg was easy & so was the drive, except for a jammed contraflow & another which was fast, 11.7km & very narrow, nasty for the concentration. Getting the vignette at the Austrian border was something they were very geared up for. I had estimated that the first services would have them & it had a Vignette Shop for all the Ostblock countries as well as Austria. We turned off for Bruckner’s birthplace at Ansfelden but could only find the closed Brucknerzentrum.

We stopped at a posh, if a bit vulgar services for not-very-good sandwiches, then ploughed on, turning off on the A21, which avoids Vienna & goes through some decent sized hills. Unfortunately, a lot of these Austrian motorways have pointless barriers obscuring the view. These drive Avis nuts, especially as the solid concrete crash barriers also limit her view.