Blogs from Austria, Europe - page 234

Gah, I'm going completely nuts... Today I tried out 4 different suitcases and after packing and unpacking and packing and un... I finally found the best one and weighed it... It was TOO heavy!!!!! So unpacking it was again and getting rid of unnecessary ballast. My heart is bleeding... I have to leave behind loads of grand clothes...Some essentials like an additional towel and most terrible,some pairs of SHOES have to stay behind as well... *sob* And after all those sacrifices it was still too heavy! Finally I ended up weighing HAIRDRYERS!!!!!! and packing the lighter one... I weighed hairdryers... I can't believe I did that... That's sooooo sick!!!! I still can't imagine you're allowed to take 23kg, only... I'm going there for a month... 4 weeks!!! It's impossible to pack everything needed for a month's ... read more

With the plan to head through to Austria, it was another early start to reach Innsbruck. Iz and I got the departure time wrong though, and were sitting in our room while everyone else was on the bus - whoops! Thankfully, the owner came looking for the key, found us, and let us know that the bus was ready to go…we got down those stairs fast! It was good to stop after a couple of hours in Liechtenstein - still part of Switzerland. We didn’t expect there to be that much on - after all it was a Sunday morning and BLOODY early, but there was a little bricker brack market, so we took a stroll around that. It was set right below the intimidating castle that peers down from the hill over the town. I ... read more

Internet is very expensive here, so this will be a quick one! After Munich, I got the train to Innsbruck, which is where I wrote my last entry, after I got my results! It was nice, I just chilled out for a few days- it´s all been a bit crazy with BusAbout, staying in Aussie hostels with bars! Then I came to another Aussie hostel with a bar in St Johann!! It´s a BusAbout stop near Innsbruck, and as I was nearby, I arranged to meet a girl that I met in Salzburg. It was raining the day we got here, so we didn´t do much except walk around the town, which is quite small. We did go to the supermarket though and actually COOKED a meal!! It was very exciting!! Yesterday, we got a cable ... read more

The evening we arrived in Vienna we had dinner and then went to a Classical Mozart and Strauss show which was surprisingly good, they even had some opera and ballet in there. We spent the following day eating cake and visitng the Hapsburgs Summer Residence (the royal family). That evening we visited a Schnapps Museum and did lots of Schnapps tasting before having dinner at Rieglerhutte -a viennese restaurant in the woods. We were entertained by an amusing host named Hans and his acordion playing friend named Wolfgang. ... read more

Today we are leaving Prague and moving on to Vienna. We have had a great time here although the crowds of tourists have been a bit challenging at times. Our accomodation was also a bit disappointing - the room was sooo small about 20cm either side of the bed. so we have been falling over each other for the past 4 nights. but in a great location right near charles bridge and the old town which has been good. never the less we have enjoyed the sights here - prague castle up on the hill - very impressive. the old town with gorgeous old buildings and cobblestoned streets, the charles bridge änd also the old jewish area. the highlight for me -Sarah- was going out to Cesky Krumlov yesterday. we couldnt go on monday as the ... read more