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Vienna Tours: Segwaying Through Old Vienna

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Barbara Grüll-Cação chose one of the fun Vienna tours and swarms through her home town on a Segway tour through Old Vienna.


Doing Vienna sightseeing is one thing. Mastering a swaying two wheeler is another. How can you possibly do both at the same time and enjoy them on top? If you love to try new things to do in Vienna, prefer small group tours of independent travellers and kill two birds with a stone like me, read on. Being a native Viennese, I had given myself a head start on the basics of Old Vienna. Not so with going on a Segway, that electric, self-balancing, personal transportation device that has been spreading fast among police forces, public patrols and tour operators worldwide.

A young lady buzzes towards the Vienna State Opera, where our group of four men, two women, and a 12-year old boy are waiting to be picked up. No umbrella being stuck in the air, but she is driving a Segway. From then onwards, we are moving quickly. First to Pedal Power’s (an operator of special Vienna tours) office, a Segway for each, helmets on, off to a quiet strip of bike path between the Museumsquartier and the Burgring boulevard. 15 minutes of introduction, safety instructions and a few tentative moves on our two wheelers – as exhilarating as learning to ride a bike but much faster and easier. My fellow female participant decides she needs a little more time to get acquainted to the Segway, and gets a bicycle. Her teenage son and husband whizz past her. We move on to our first site - the Imperial Palace. Our warm up and first tour stop on Heldenplatz, in front of the Palace, makes me master the edges of pavements and hold myself on the Segway in resting position, while brushing up on my knowledge of Vienna’s imperial history.

Magic. Barbara, the tour operator, covers the Vienna classics, with lots of historical references and a few anecdotes. From the Imperial Palace, we move on to the Spanish Riding School, along the Ring to the Parliament, Burgtheater, the University, then right into the city centre along the squares of Freyung, Am Hof, and Stephansplatz, passing the old city until the Museum for Applied Arts, the Stadtpark, Konzerthaus, Church of Charles Borromeo, and back. I’d like to say I know all she says about these locations, but it is interesting and fun, so it doesn’t matter. Taking on the cobble stones in the city centre reminds me of exercising on a vibration training plate. We stop regularly during this almost three hour tour to take pictures, have a drink, and soak in the atmosphere. Meanwhile, our group’s growing perfectionism in segwaying through town has wetted the appetite of our fellow member on her bike, and towards the end of the tour she has another go on her husband’s Segway, extending her moves bit by bit. Easy does it.



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Barbara Grüll-Cação runs travel Vienna tours portal Vienna Unwrapped www.vienna-unwrapped.com and is as passionate about her home town as a 10 year expat can be. We reveal the best Vienna tours For more Informations Please Visit Our Vienna segway tours Website.


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