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Zagan the motorhome’s made it into an official stellplatz outside Vienna<\/a> (N48.13556 E16.31584). Even the might of the Ottoman Empire couldn’t get this far north into Austria, we’re proud of our mighty Zagan! It costs \u20ac19 a night to stay here, without electricity, but we have showers and the site is only 150m from a U Bahn (underground) station, which is itself about a 20 min ride into the city centre (\u20ac2.20 per person each way). There’s a freebie place to stay just north of the city too, according to our Camper Stop book. As we’re leaving Charlie in the van (muzzles needed on the train, he hates trains and no muzzle ever stays on him), we opted to pay for a couple of nights to get some added security in the big smoke.<\/p>\n

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Official Motorhome Stellplatz in Vienna<\/p><\/div>\n

Austria’s a wonderful country to travel through in a motorhome. Unless you’re in a city or in the Tyrol, you can legally park up for a night just about anywhere, saving you lots of wonga which you can spend on peach schnapps. Sweet. The countryside is beautiful. It’s a calm, safe, place with incredible architecture and landscapes. So how come we’re about to leave so soon? Because getting here is fairly easy – a nip through France and a blat across Germany’s freebie autobahns and voil\u00e0, you’re in. The other countries to the east and north of us are harder to reach from the UK, so we want to spend longer in them. After a night in a village (last night) and the two nights we’ve paid for here, we’ll head into Slovakia. Gulp. New country nerves…<\/p>\n

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Only Austria seems to have these – air inflation devices at fuel stations which you lift off a stand and carry around to each tyre. I love ’em, no fiddling with a long hose<\/p><\/div>\n

Today we pootled through a few Austrian villages, reminded of the country’s religious conservatism by signs at each of them announcing the times when mass is held in the church. One even sported a fetching blue ‘Park and Pray’ sign. After filling up on \u20ac1 a litre diesel (soooo much cheaper than the last time we toured Europe!), we hit the motorway and racked up 3 hour’s worth of northwards-nailing. Our Austrian hosts seem to be in the midst of a major road-patching exercise as we hit roadworks after roadworks. Since the speed limit in ’em was set at 80kph, and I drive Zagan at roughly 80kph anyway (for the free beer<\/a>), they made no difference to the time it took us to get to Vienna.<\/p>\n

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Austria has wee ‘cone men’ in roadworks, which get happier as the distance to the end decreases, awesome!<\/p><\/div>\n