Vienna, week 2: heat and more heat

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37 degrees. In public transport without air conditioning, even I am reaching my limits of comfort in the heat!

We are staying at the very outskirts of the city. Regional services are easy to reach, making it simple to get far away (like to see my cousin, although we haven't managed it yet because she's got Covid) but quite hard to get around locally. There's one tramway and a few buses, that's it - to get to the other means of transport, we need to go 7 stops on the non-air-conditioned tramway. Frankly, that's put me off going to many places!

Luckily we do have a family pool in walking distance, and we've become quite familiar with it. There's also an initiative by the city where there's free, supervised multi sports on offer locally where I could leave the kids, 9am-2pm. This is great because I can stay or go (although there's really nowhere to go from there, it's all residential and it's too far to go home) and thus far I've always stayed, but have started doing some work while there. I sit and connect through my phone hotspot under a shady tree while the kids have fun nearby but I don't have to supervise them: perfect. 

Suffering in the heat


At the family pool, some relaxation

Multisports





Regular breaks are important...

Seems N(7) is naturally talented at tennis 


We have of course gone to some proper baths too, the Danube is their favourite over the pools - way more exciting to watch the fish, examine the rocks, get caught in the seaweed... we have found a lovely babysitter for Thursdays, Julia, who has taken them to the Danube and brought them back at the end of the day pretty much asleep on their feet!


Warming up on the concrete after a spell in the cold pool

Lifeguard had to explain that you can't go too close to swans 



Finally, what else is there to do in the heat but enjoy some ice cream? 






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