April 2021

Blooming Trees

I am always curious to find out what else we can get up to close to Vienna. So I am reading various newsletters and keep looking on Social Media for inspiration. Last weeks´ newsletter from Vienna´s digital city magazine "Good Night" featured an article about the blooming Apricot trees in the Wachau area, close to the city of Krems. (The magazine is available only in german, but I linked it above anyway in case you want to look it up.) The Wachau area of Austria has been home to apricot fruits dating back to 1509. From 1890 this fruit was planted and produced heavily in the area and is now important produce of the area.
The weather was lovely that weekend and we decided to make a day trip out of it. We packed a picnic and our dog and off we went on the motorway. It took just over an hour to get to the village of Angern. There are no official parking spaces but you can park along the main street and join the hiking trail called "Marillen Erlebnisweg" from there. It is about 5km long and takes you through the Vineyards and past the Apricot Trees. Along the track, you find 5 stations with a lot of information about the region and the nature you find there. The area is a little hilly and you have great views of the Danube, the villages and churches as well as the vineyards and fruit trees. It is a really lovely day out, especially when the sun is out and you can also buy some local produce at the farm shops to take home.