To get in one last run before our journey home, I was up at 06:40. I was out the door ten minutes later to do what I expected would be a slow five mile run. I headed west, and crossed the Danube Canal further along than we’d done previously (at the Rossauer Barracks), and found my way to the Sigmund Freud museum to photograph that, and then continued on in the direction of the Spittelau incinerator. Why would I be visiting an incinerator? It’s because we’d first seen it from a distance atop the Donauturm, and had later found out online that its strange look was designed by Hundertwasser so felt it was worth a look.

On my way to the incinerator I passed the Liechtenstein garden palace so took the chance to photograph that from the open gates as well. When I got to the incinerator shortly after that I was tempted to take the U-Bahn stop next to it back to Praterstern to save time, and partly because the humid heat was sapping my energy. However, I decided I’d regret not covering enough miles if I did that. So, I ran the shortest route back via Augarten, and managed to get some more photographs of the two flak towers at the same time.

After breakfast and a shower, we tidied the apartment and finished packing before the walk to Praterstern one last time. It was a sweaty walk as the sun had already been up for a few hours, and the temperatures were already soaring. Once again we got a group ticket for the S7 train, and sat waiting on it for twenty minutes before it took us to the airport. If I'd thought sooner, I could have quickly dashed to get a photograph of the statue outside the station, but by the time I realised the opportunity was gone.

Whilst we arrived at the airport at 10:45, it took us a good fifteen minutes to find out way to the check-in desk. The lifts up were constantly busy, but we found an escalator we could use instead. It’s then entirely self service as we use one machine to print the luggage tags, and then another to scan it in and send it off on the conveyor belt. It’s actually a really easy system to use. Within seconds we’d received check-in confirmation from Austrian Airlines for our luggage as well.

Security took longer than normal as my bag was pulled aside to be checked further, and here they decided that absolutely any electrical devices such as a camera, and any cables such as the USB cable for my card reader, the card reader itself, and more, all needed to be scanned outside of my bag as their scanner wasn’t good enough. I commented on how rare this as I’ve travelled all over the world, and they said “ah, we’re famous then.”

There’s food places and shops everywhere in the airport, but rather than spending time lingering there, we headed to the G gates which needed us to go through passport control. There are still a handful of restaurants and shops on the other side, but nowhere near as much choice. After filling out water bottles at a fountain, we made our way to Aida, and Carmen bought is both a slice of Truffletorte, which we sat and ate as we waited for our flight to be called.

It wasn’t that much of a wait before we boarded a bus, and was taken over to the aircraft. We were amongst the first on the plane, so had no issues with getting out bags in the overhead compartments. I spent the first half of the flight watching a video on my laptop, and in the second half of the flight there was complimentary water and a chocolate.

Once we were through baggage collection at London Heathrow, I checked the Uber app to see what the waiting time was, and then thought about where the pick-up location would likely be. With Uber after making a selection it lets you know that in general Uber pick-up from floor 4 of the adjacent car park. The lifts were constantly busy, so we used the escalator up to the top floor, and found to get down one floor we still needed to use the lifts anyway. The queues were far easier from the top floor though, so was a time-saving tip for next time we use an Uber from Heathrow.

Our mini-adventure in Österreich was over.