
Well, I rose to the challenge and indeed got on my bike, rode from the East End of town to the West End (a good twenty kilometres, with temperatures well below -5 degrees freezing, and hoarfrost forming on trees as you can see).

And guess what? It is indeed one of the steepest climbs of Wienerwald! One shouldn't talk big before those in the know, shouldn't one?

Anyway, it isn't as if I hadn't got my punishment: I'm frozen through from bone to bone, it is very exhausting to ride your bicycle in conditions like that, with cold and dry air, no matter how much clothes you put on.
But I also got something out of it - a very nice place which I definitely will visit again come spring, and warmer temperatures!