What I saw from the road and what life taught me.

• There are no local shops. Every two, three villages there’s a supermarket.
• In absolutely every village there’s Raiffeisen bank.
• It’s more difficult to meet people on the streets as everybody is at home/work or in the car.
• No stray dogs.
• Starting in Central Austria there are bars/pubs in every village. You can smoke inside.
• Cycling paths and roads are impeccable.
• Cycling path R1 goes through the whole Burgenland and it’s impossible to loose it. I took it for three quarters of Austria but in the South it will take you on every hill along the way (including those of 15% ascent).
• Don’t use the post. I would have send an elephant in Poland for what I paid here for sending a couple of maps back home.

Dictionary:

Guten Tag – Hello

Danke –Thank you

Auf Wüdersehen – Goodbye

Rechts – Right

Links – Left

Mitte Gerade – Straight

Wü komme ich nach…? – How to get to…?

Kann ich hier übernachten im Zelt für 1 Nacht? – Can I put up a tent here for one night?