We woke up to a beautiful sunny day. While Lucy was getting ready, Reni and I took one more walk by the lake and took in the view one more time. Then we packed our Wolfie again and drove toward Italy. We decided to cut across Italy before going up to Austria towards Vienna. We first went to see a mountain lake and then stopped for coffee in a little town Travieso (?). The coffee and pastry were delicious. Then we crossed the Austrian border and took a highway towards Vienna. It was about 370 km to Vienna so we decided to drive for about 300 km and then stop for the night. On the way, we were caught in very heavy rain, but as we got closer to Vienna, the weather improved. We got off the highway about 20 km from the city of Wiener Neustadt and ended in a small village of Seebenstein. It’s quite picturesque, with a big schloss (castle) on top of a hill. We asked someone about a pension and she pointed us to a big building near a park. The building was lo9cked so we rang a bell, were buzzed in and the first thing we saw after we entered was a nun and a priest. We were in a monastery. They were very nice and hospitable, prepared us a room for 3 and we were set. It turned out that this used to be a Franciscan monastery, but now the nuns run a nursing home and a pension. After a little rest (Reni and Lucy) and a walk through the village in futile search of internet access (me), we set out to climb the castle hill. It took about 30 min and we were on top. The castle was from the 14th century, and partly in ruins. There was also some kind of a tower from the time of the Turkish invasion (14th century), but we didn’t go there because it was getting late. We walked through the village again, saw several milk producing farms and ended at the railway station and a very nice restaurant there where we had dinner and a bottle of good Austrian Wetliner wine.
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