(AP) Slipping away from Vienna, Arnold Schwarzenegger briefly visited the city of his youth Sunday to breakfast with a fellow governor and spend a little private time with friends. Schwarzenegger, on his first trip to Austria since becoming California governor, left the capital for Graz after attending Saturday's funeral of President Thomas Klestil.

The Austria Press Agency said Schwarzenegger spent a few hours with friends late Saturday in a Graz restaurant and was scheduled to have breakfast with Waltraud Klasnic, governor of Steiermark province. Schwarzenegger also planned to visit the grave of his parents before flying home later in the day.

In Austria, like elsewhere in Europe, anti-American feeling has risen in the wake of the invasion of Iraq. But Schwarzenegger remains hugely popular as an Austrian who went to America and became a success.

As a governor, Schwarzenegger was relatively low in ranking among the kings and presidents attending Saturday's funeral. But media coverage reflected Austria's affection for its native son.

Austrian state television frequently panned to Schwarzenegger during Saturday's requiem Mass for Klestil, showing him shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries with Austria's cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, taking communion, and looking pensively into the air.

Sunday's mass-circulation Kronenzeitung printed a two-page article describing the friendship between Schwarzenegger and Klestil, who died in office Tuesday, just two days before the end of his final term.

"In my heart, I am — and will remain — an Austrian!" the daily quoted Schwarzenegger as saying.

In a front page photo Saturday, the same newspaper reflected the tough-guy image cultivated by Schwarzenegger's films, featuring pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Schwarzenegger, both with their best hard-eyed stares. "Arnold and Putin in Vienna today!" blared the headline.