It is early morning in Klosterneuberg, a small town in the floodplain with large abbey above. This was briefly the capital city of the Babenbergs about 1000 years ago after they picked up stakes in Melk (where they also left an abbey) and before they made a longer-lasting capital city in Vienna. The Klosterneuberg Abbey is celebrating the 900th anniversary of its founding this year, although the current building is a Baroque reconstruction, much newer, and there was a Roman fort on the site long before 1114, much older. Here we are less than 10 miles from the center of Vienna, and we'll head there this morning for three days off of the bikes and some city time. We were rewarded for persistence through bad weather at the beginning with three beautiful days for riding along
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