My first time on an E bike on the Danube Cycle Path! Grein to Vienna!

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🚴‍♂️ Cycling from Grein to Vienna on an eBike for the First Time! ⚡

Join me as I ride along the beautiful Danube Cycle Path from Grein to Vienna on an electric bike. This was my very first time using an eBike on a long-distance ride, and the journey was unforgettable!

🌍 The route takes me through picturesque Austrian towns, vineyards, and riverside paths before arriving in the heart of Vienna. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to cycle this famous section of the Danube River trail with eBike assistance, this video is for you.

Along the way, I’ll share:
✅ What it’s like riding an eBike long-distance for the first time
✅ Stunning views of Austria’s Wachau Valley and beyond
✅ Tips for cycling the Grein–Vienna route
✅ My honest experience of the Danube Cycle Path on an eBike

📍 Route: Grein → Vienna (Danube Cycle Path / EuroVelo 6)
🚲 Bike: eBike (first ever ride!)

Whether you’re planning your own Austria cycling holiday, thinking about trying an electric bike tour, or just love travel and adventure videos, I hope this ride gives you inspiration and practical insights.

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Today on Bike Trekking with Carl, I cycle the Danube River. This is more than just a bike ride from Gren to Vienna. This is a moving postcard through Austria’s soul. It will feature over 200 kilometers of freedom, beauty, and it’s the kind of adventure that is going to stay with me for a lifetime. So, saddle up and come with me as I ride the Danube River. This ride brought me highs I didn’t even know were possible and challenged me in ways I never thought I would experience. This whole ride was made possible by Freewheel Holidays. This is a sponsored video. If you feel at any point that I’ve done enough to earn your subscription, a like, a comment, then please do because it really helps my channel grow. So without any further ado, let’s do this. At this point, you’re probably wondering, “How did somebody like me get this trip of a lifetime?” Well, let me tell you, as I board this flight, Steven from Freewheel Holidays reached out to me and said, “Hey, I love your videos. Would you be interested in filming one of our cycle touring holiday packages? We handle all the details. We book the accommodation. We’ll find you a bike. We’ll even provide you with luggage transfer from hotel to hotel along with a dedicated app that will give you maps and details about the routes. We are industry experts. We provide over 130 cycle touring packages. I said, “Well, that sounds amazing, but what’s the catch?” Steven said, “There’s no catch. All I want you to do is go and film your ride to show people what it’s like to go on one of our holidays.” And I said, “Absolutely. The ride starts tomorrow. So, it’s after the hotel, after bed, and then yeah, let’s get into this. [Music] And I’ll take care of you along the way. One day at a time, we’ll leave our troules behind. Good morning and welcome to Gren. We are on the edge of the Danube, ready to set out. So today we’re going to see the good, the good, and the even better because let’s face it, it’s the Danube. Let’s do this. Oh yeah, and here’s my bike. This is the next thing. I might have lied about my credentials ever so slightly to Free Wheels holidays. I have never ridden an electric bike before. I haven’t got the the faintest idea of how one works. Right. So, what do we do? Pop this back here. Right. So, I think with these things, the idea is just to pedal. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, that’s just getting on a bike in general. Failed there, isn’t it? Most people can do that. Okay. Nothing to do with electric bike. So, what do I do now? Just start pedaling. Oh, off we go. Okay, we’re pedaling. We’re pedaling. Is anything happening? Oh, try turning it on. It’s surprisingly easy to pedal even when the assist isn’t on. [Music] Okay, I’ll try turning this on first. There we go. It’s on. Right. There we go. Why is that pedaling? Oh, is it doing something? Oh. Oh, no. It’s going. It’s going. Oh, wow. That’s incredibly easy. Well, there we go. Electric bikes mastered day one. Who can say their first ever go on an electric bike was in Gren on the Danube? I can. That’s it. Right, let’s go. There are two ways to leave Gren. The bridge or via the ferry. And I chose the ferry. Now, you will notice all of these bikes are exactly like mine, and that’s because they are Eurobikes. And Eurobike provide the infrastructure for freewheel holidays to utilize. Now, using the ferry is the best way to leave Gren because you get a close look at those inky blues of the Danube. A gorgeous moving view of Gren and you get to move in style. I however was so excited to get off this ferry and really see what this ebike had to offer. The journey was underway and I was ready for it. [Music] I’ll tell you what, this bike is incredibly easy to ride. I don’t even have it on um assist at the minute. I don’t even have it turned on and it’s just rolling like a dream. Let’s just hit the power button. Power on. Right, what’s next? Now, before when I was trying this out like an idiot, I had it in sports mode. Um that would have been probably overkill for this journey. So, we’re going to go for a nice bit of eco eco assist. And I am barely even working here. I am barely working. The Danuba as a river is very flat anyhow. So, I don’t need to worry too much about that anyway in terms of the effort. However, this electric bike is a luxury. It is so intuitive. It’s so easy. So, if you’ve never ridden an electric bike, trust me, there is nothing to it. You just turn the thing on, you get on and pedal. That’s it. There’s just nothing to it. Right. Okay. Because I am a absolute child, I’m going to go for full sport mode now. Let’s go for this. All right. So, we’re going tour sport. Ooh, turbo. Wow. Oh, I’m not even working now. This is It’s like being on a moped. Not quite like being on a moped, but not far off. All right, let’s go back down to eco eco mode. There we go. One thing to remember in the Danube, but I’m looking at you. You right there is no roller skating. Yeah. Okay. Take those roller skates out of your suitcase now and put them away. Right. Check out this ferry behind me. These things are going up and down the Danube. Hey, they’re like floating like I don’t know like floating hotels or something. They’ve got these huge glass windows. I can see people sat at dining tables. See beds in there as well. It looks like people are actually sleeping in there. So, they must be doing like the full van in it. So, it looks like you can do it just like a holiday cruise. Absolutely fantastic that isn’t it? There’s just so many ways you can do this. You could walk it, you could ride it, you could roller skate it, do pretty much whatever you want. I made three mistakes this day. The first one was not carrying cash. Nowhere wants to take card, especially in rural areas. The second mistake was underestimating how seriously the Austrians take their Sundays. Everything closes. So, if you want to go to a grocery store to get snacks, supplies, do that the day before because all that’s open is petrol stations, and some of the key attractions. And the final mistake was I underestimated how good this ebike would be. I got through today in absolute ease and ended up in Melk very early. However, I have to say this is not a place I was disappointed to arrive early at. You know, when you’re in Mel, this is this is just spectacular. Absolutely spectacular. When you get here, it just smells like food. You can smell all that Austrian cooking. I’m not exaggerating. The entire place just smells amazing. Let’s go. Let’s hit Milk because this place there is so much to see. After leaving my hotel room, I cruised the cobble streets of Mel and ascended the steps that led me to Mel Abbey. Now, this is an absolutely amazing piece of Barack architecture. It’s amazing inside and out. But unfortunately, there’s no photography allowed inside there, so I can’t show it to you. So, you’ll just have to trust me. Go in, you will not be disappointed. Following this, I attended my first ever wine tasting where I literally had no idea what I was doing, but they were so kind and patient with me. And all I can tell you is the wine here is fantastic. Tomorrow I would be visiting the Wacow Valley where the grapes were grown to make this wine. So keep watching for that. In anticipation of that journey, I headed for a wiener snitle, a pint of laga, and then it was an early night and off to bed. Having learned my lesson from the Sunday, I got up and made a leisurely start to my day. I strolled down to reception where I left my bag to be collected by the luggage transfer service. Headed to the bike shed, grabbed my bike, and then it was time to leave milk. Right, so that’s it. We are leaving Mel. Friendly people, great scenery, great buildings, great history. The plan for my leisurely start was well, it was going as planned. But the saying goes, the best laid plans of mice and men often go ary. And today that adage would prove to be true. [Music] So, one of the key benefits of using the Eurobike app is that it’s giving me updates of realtime route interruptions. So, today I have to take the north side of the Danube because the south is blocked by rockfall. So, if I was just using like Google Maps or something, I’ I’d have no idea potentially that the cycle path was blocked. So that’s just really good. Following the directions laid out for me in the app, I crossed the Danube River and arrived in the Wacow Valley. Now, I had been told before arriving here that the Wacow Valley is a special place, but in reality, it’s much more. The entire region here is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and that’s to do with the balance between nature and man. And it’s just unbelievably spectacular here. The culture, the heritage, everything’s preserved. It’s so fertile. Everything is growing here. There’s vineyards, orchards, people are selling preserves, homemade jams, marmalades, everything. Because there’s nothing that won’t grow here. It’s so fertile. And that’s all thanks to the Danube that runs through here. Even if you don’t care about any of that, it just makes something absolutely awesome to witness. [Music] And the wine’s not bad. There is the wine, too. The wine’s brilliant. No video can ever do the Wacow Valley justice. The region is just so expansive. Every village is like a medieval time capsule. It’s out of this world. You can really see why this is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The hours, well, they just fly by. I nearly ran out of time. Knowing that the daylight was limited, reluctantly, I put my head down and headed for the hotel. The third and final day. Now, this brought mixed feelings because on one hand, I was really excited to be going to Vienna, but on the other hand, I was sad. This would be my last day on the Danube cycle path. That said, each day had brought something completely new and completely different, and today would be no exception. So, I’m starting to get a feel of what today is going to be. This is more the working part of Austria, the rural working heart. It feels like this entire region is just feeding into Vienna. I can smell huge factories on an industrial scale baking bread. It’s not an unpleasant smell. It’s quite nice, actually. So, today I think it’s just going to be one of those days where I’m in the saddle for the most of it. So, it’s going to be nice today just to just ride, not think, just enjoy the greenery and follow the path. So, what a great day to come out. So, stay a while. We’ll slow it all the way back down. [Music] Still long getting warmer. Slow it down cuz rolling into Vienna, the city skyline started to unfold before me. And this is where today gets really interesting. And for me, this was most definitely the highlight of the day. [Music] So, I’m gonna go for it. Woo! How fun is this? Come on. Why don’t we have these in England? So, yeah, it’s just like this little underworld of cycle paths so far anyway, and I am loving it. Cycling through Vienna is intoxicating. The cycle paths weave themselves throughout the city like a tapestry. You can get literally anywhere on your bike. Now, it’s not the best way to do it because the locals, they move fast. I thought I was moving fast, but they were always moving faster. But I had a smile on my face everywhere I went. I saw Bohemian cafes, jazz bars. Everybody was having a good time. It feels like an incredibly safe city, but it still is a city. So, obviously, use your common sense. I cycled for hours once I arrived at the city and only stopped to go and recharge my battery and head out again at night. And at night is when everything changes again. So, arrived at the hotel in Vienna. I put the bike in the car park and I was like, there’s no charging points. What am I going to do? So, I go to the front desk and I say, “Listen, where can I plug my bike in to charge?” And the person behind the desk is going through like all these convoluted ways I can do it. And then the young guy just comes over and says, “Have you tried taking the battery out?” And I was like, “No.” So, so I feel old and stupid. Of course, on an ebike, you could just pop the battery out and bring it up to your room and charge it. So, here it is. There it is. Plugged in. Charging. It’s thingy. You live, you learn. You live, you learn. I used to be young and stupid once. Now I’m just old and stupid. Right. Let’s go explore Vienna. So, you may have heard of Vienna Nights. Will I bring you Vienna bikes, which is also at night, so maybe that name needs some work. But would you believe me if I told you that in the center of Vienna there is a giant purple zen octopus. And in front of that octopus there are people dancing, ballroom dancing. And it is absolutely crazy to see. Now there’s no good reason to whiz around Vienna at night on a bicycle. In fact, you’d be crazy to do it because the transport here is excellent. There’s trams, there’s Austria’s version of underground, so you’re well and truly covered. But I was by myself and my wife wasn’t there to tell me not to do it. So, I was going to do it. And I cycled to a theme park that’s in the center of Vienna. This theme park, you can get in here for free. Uh you don’t have to pay a penny, and it’s just open to the public. There was cars, bikes going through here. Uh the there are over 250 attractions in this theme park. So, it’s well worth checking out. And as you can see, it is absolutely spectacular. And sadly, this brings us to the end of the video. This will be a ride I will never forget. Going on one of the freewheel holiday packages, a cycle touring package just in general has been a real eye opener for me. I never considered doing this kind of thing while staying in good hotels, having some sort of support system and having an electric bike and all of that freed me up to see so much more. If it wasn’t for the electric bike, the hotels, all these conveniences, I wouldn’t have had the energy I had to be here right now cycling around a theme park after having done pretty much nearly 70 km on the cycle path. So, I would say if you want the challenge of doing this ride, but you also want luxury, then booking it through someone like Freewheel Holidays makes total sense. And even if you want a little bit more challenge than I had, then you don’t have to get an ebike. You can get a standard bike on this package. I know you’re going to look at me as bias because yes, this is a sponsored video, but surely the video just speaks for itself. I mean, you’re on the Danube on an amazing bike and everything’s taken care of for you. If you made it this far, thank you incredibly so so much for watching to the end. I really appreciate you. Uh if you could leave a like, a comment, and maybe even consider subscribing if you’re not, that would really help the channel out. And on that note, thank you so much for watching, and I will catch you on the next one. Thank you so much. Bye-bye. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music]