We departed from Linz and obtained lifts right through to Vienna, passing at Melk to see the Benedictine Monastery (the largest in Austria), which was built in the early 18th century in Baroque style.
We signed in at the Vienna hostel about 6pm, and then went out for an excellent dinner at a nearby restaurant. Before booking in at the hostel, however, I accidently walked into the near-by police station, thinking that it was the hostel – even asking the officer in charge if it was the hostel!
Strangely enough a great number of people we have met in Austria claim to be German, but living in Austria, and many of them were prisoners-of-war of the British – but bear no malice. One man who fought on the Russian front at Leningrad said: “Hitler was good for Germany, but bad for England.”
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