Finally temperatures that reveal it's summer – I'm not spoilt with that on this bike tour. It was 20 degrees centigrade (68 F) as I fell asleep yesterday – I didn't slip into my sleeping bag until I woke up at midnight. I know I have raged upon many things in this travelogue, but I must really emphasize that there is nothing better than sleeping in a tent, waking up in the night to take a pee outside, feel a little bit cold and go back to the warm sleeping bag and fall asleep the next second. Better sleep doesn't exist.

This day has been warm too. Actually too warm, because when I was biking at the most deserted riverbank, a violent thunderstorm struck. I hid under a roof to a toolshed in a private garden that I had the courage to enter.

I didn't have to rush today. Quite the opposite actually, since I was to meet my aquaintance in Vienna at 7 pm. So after the thunderstorm, I stopped by a little lake that had formed next to the Danube and took a bath. That was just before Greifenstein. I also stopped for a couple of hours in the little town Tulln, where I walked around and read the guidebook.

When I got closer to Vienna, I started to talk to a retired man, who guided me into the city center. From there I called my aquiantance, who told me which underground line to take to his place. Why aren't you allowed to take your bike on the Stockholm underground? 20 minutes later I was there.

I have nowed bought us a dinner at a restaurant, as a thanks for his letting me stay in his apartment. I have also called my friend Stefan who lives in Kraków, Poland. I'm gonna bike there after Vienna, and spend some days at his place. I don't know exactly which way to take to Kraków, but there are plenty of days to figure that out here in Vienna. It feels good this matter is settled – now I look forward to the rest of my bike tour!