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+title: 'Day 22: Dunakiliti (HU) to Vienna (AT)'
+date: 2022-09-14T21:46:24+02:00
+Tags: []
+Categories: []
+---
+
+## Our trip today
+
+{{< image src="/img/day22/map.png" width="400px" float="right" >}}
+
+This will mark the end of our fantastic voyage from Zurich (Switzerland) through Almere (the Netherlands), then northbound through Germany,
+Denmark and Sweden, all the way to _Honningsvåg_ and the _Real North Cape_ (also the commercial one), and then meandering down south through
+Norway, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and finally, the return **dest** which is _Wien_ Austria. But before I get ahead of
+myself, let me tell you about this last day of our roadtrip.
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-15/IMG_6080.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
+
+Our lodging in Hungary is top-notch, while not too expensive (I used a Hotels.com voucher to cover the resort fee, so I ended up paying a
+whopping EUR 4,89 for the two of us). Paul soaked in the sauna yesterday and we both took a nice relaxing swim. As you may recall, I hitched
+Tessa on a 22kW charging point which I could activate with my room key (!). That's all been wonderful, but it's time to leave. The breakfast
+here is a bit so-so, there's _normally_ lots of interesting things on the table, trays of eggs, bacon, breads and things to put on the bread.
+Except, for the moment we're in low-season so all of it is empty. A lady rocks up to our table and offers to make us eggs any style,
+although she strongly suggests eggs sunnyside up with ham. Works for us!
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-15/IMG_7942.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
+
+Shortly after 9am we jet. I have two things on the list: Firstly (and more importantly), I still have to get a geocache in Hungary as I've
+never logged one here before. I scout out a few down South of here, there's lots of them up North, but unfortunately that's another country
+(Slovakia, above the Danube river). The first one is quickly in hand, some kinder-egg shell in a signpost. The second one is a bit harder,
+easy to find, but hard to extract the log without wrecking it. Then, seccondly, we go to the tri-state point (Slovakia, Hungary and Austria)
+where there's a bit of a stone garden, and another geocache although we have no idea in which country that one falls, precisely :)
+
+After that little morning exercise, we notice that while normally the distance from either _Almere_ or _Zurich_ to _Vienna_ is 800km / 500mi
+or more, now all of the sudden it's more like 60km, and we like that. It does kind of rob us of the opportunity to talk a lot about what
+we've done in the car today, because matter of factually we weren't in the car for long. By 10am we rock up to the _25 hours_ hotel that
+Paul had booked. Early checkin is not available but we can park the car in the garage, so we lob our luggage back in Tessa's trunk and
+explore the city.
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-15/IMG_7956.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
+
+_Vienna_ is beautiful, and on every street corner there's a gargantuan stone building. The inner city with all of its museums and palaces
+kind of reminds me of _Washington (DC)_ which is funny because if one looks like the other, it's going to be _Washington_ that has copied
+the architecture from Europe, not the other way around. But I'm not here to bash the Americans (more so than I usually do, of course) ...
+But hey, look, scooters from Tier! A few euros later, we have a high speed (compared to walking anyway), low friction way to see lots of these
+buildings:
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/nodate/IMG_6105.jpg" width="300px" float="right" >}}
+
+
+*   We start at _Schloss Belvedere_ and see a statue of a rather round-pointed creature
+*   Traveling in what is a reasonably straight line NorthWesterly, we visit  _Karlskirche_
+*   The _Wiener Staatsoper_ we have to see from outside/across the street, it doesn't have an easy angle to make great pictures (from the
+*   oudside anyway)
+*   Going a bit further, _Hofburg_ cannot be missed in all of its glory, including the castle gates at _Heldenplatz_
+*   We finish off taking a look at the exterior or the _Rathaus der Stadt Wien_, after which we've seen enough buildings for a while.
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-15/IMG_6135.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
+
+We go to the hotel to check in to our room, drop our stuff there, and take a look at the _TU Wien_ (the local technical university) which
+will be hosting Euro BSD Conference this year. Today is all about trainings and educational sessions (which neither Paul nor I have
+registered for, although there's a handson Ansible series that maybe could teach me a thing or two ...), but Paul is on the board of EuroBSD
+Foundation, so he makes the rounds and says "Hi!" to the local organizing crew. I meet _doublep_ there, which has been maybe 15 years or so
+since we last spoke.
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-15/IMG_6131.jpg" width="400px" float="right" >}}
+
+In the evening, we figure there's really only one thing to eat. Paul reminds himself that he did _not_ eat that thing yesterday in Hungary,
+so we're all green to go eat _Wienerschnitzel_ and _Apfelstrudel_. I liven it up with one of my favorite bouillion style soups:
+_Fladensuppe_ (beef/veal stock with strips of pancake, ommnomm!). Something weird happens to my laptop - Paul and I had checked out [Stable
+Diffusion](https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/stable-diffusion-macos-install-help) which is an open source AI model that generates
+images; while doing that (which was not that spectacular), I noticed my screen was a bit smudgy, probably from writing all those blogposts
+en route. So I cleaned it, as I always do (with water and a soft micro fiber cloth), and after dinner when I came back to write the
+blogpost, my screen was completely messed up. Lots of vertical pixel lines missing, and from time to the the whole screen would just mess up
+royally and go dim. It was an unworkable mess :( I can't help but wonder if the GPU got messed up, or the screen got messed up from the
+cleaning, or something else. But the day is over and I decide this is a problem for Future-Pim
+
+## What's Next?
+
+{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/nodate/IMG_6145.jpg" width="300px" float="right" >}}
+
+Tomorrow we'll take another look at EuroBSD Con, and then Pim will drive home while Paul stays in Vienna to take a flight to Amsterdam on
+Sunday (he's sticking it out the whole way, I'm only going to BSDCon 2 days, Thu + Fri). I'll then take the short 720km drive home to
+_Zurich_. When I'm done, I will have driven 10'040km or 6'235 miles, and this will have cost roughly 1'800 kWh of power (most of which I did
+not have to pay for becuase I'm one of those lucky cats who has an older Model S which comes with a lifetime of free charging, thanks Elon!)
+
+It's really nice to see the cost savings here, but I also know that the power generated in Norway and Sweden is super clean: Norway has the
+highest share of electricity produced from renewable sources in Europe, and the lowest emissions from the power sector. At the end of 2020,
+the total installed capacity of the Norwegian power supply system was 37 732 MW, and normal annual production was 153,2 TWh. I'm very glad
+to have been able to use a bit of that on this epic roadtrip :)
+
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6080.jpg" caption="Geocaching in Mosonmagyaróvár (Hungary), kindereggs are great">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6081.jpg" caption="Geocaching in Mosonmagyaróvár (Hungary), the logsheet is stuck, unhappy Pim">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7942.jpg" caption="Tri-State point: SK, HU, AT">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6085.jpg" caption="A Geocache at the Tri-State point: HU, SK, AT with a flag of CH in the middle">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6087.jpg" caption="A big'ol snail at the AT/HU border">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7947.jpg" caption="Vienna has cute stoplights for pedestrians">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6091.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Paul and Pim at Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7949.jpg" caption="Maria-Theresien-Denkmal in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7951.jpg" caption="A strange-looking Birdlike statue at the TU Wien library">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7952.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Pim and Paul at this weird Bjird">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7955.jpg" caption="A round-breasted statue at Schloss Belvedere in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7956.jpg" caption="Schloss Belvedere in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6096.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Paul and Pim in front of Karlskirche">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6102.jpg" caption="The outer castle gate at Heldenplatz in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_7960.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Paul and Pim astonished by the Hofburg in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6124.jpg" caption="The Museum of Natural History in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6125.jpg" caption="0.5-Selfie of Pim and Paul at the Column of Pest (Column of The Trinity)">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6126.jpg" caption="St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6128.jpg" caption="Restaurant Lugeck – Figlmüller in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6129.jpg" caption="Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6130.jpg" caption="Pim's Fladensuppe">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6131.jpg" caption="When in Vienna: Schnitzel!">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6133.jpg" caption="Paul's Apfelstrudel">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6135.jpg" caption="Our freaky mural at 25hrs in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6100.jpg" caption="The Hofburg in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6095.jpg" caption="Belvedere Palace in Vienna">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-15/IMG_6092.jpg" caption="Museum of Natural History in Vienna">}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}