Blogs from Austria, Europe - page 238

I think if there is one country on our whole trip that I wish we had spent more time in it would probably be Austria. We had no hostel booked heading into Austria so we basically could get off at any stop but it was late and we decided our best bet at finding a place was Salzburg. Salzburg has gained much of it's popularity as being the setting for the Sound of Music. I haven't seen Sound of Music as a good so unfortunately I didn't recognize any of the setting but Salzburg is beautiful on it's own. Our first day was spent walking around the city and through the shops. I was determined to find a good deal on a cookoo clock as my parents souvenier. Later on in the afternoon we started ... read more

We finally made it to Salzburg! But the trip was long....much longer than we originally planned. We left Tulsa on Thursday morning in a downpour. The plane was scheduled to leave at 12:55 p.m., but was delayed because of a late plane coming into Tulsa. So we had to change our entire itinerary. We finally got to Dallas, where we were to get a plane directly to Frankfurt, Germany. But instead, we flew to Chicago! We spent most of the day on Thursday flying around the U.S....just trying to get out of the country! Finally we got our plane in Chicago to fly to Frankfurt at 7:30 in the evening. Finally, it hit us that we were going on this trip! Many of the people getting on the plane were speaking German...they were returning to ... read more

It's the day of departure from Vienna - or maybe not? The train I booked has no bike storage (night train Vienna-Berlin), so I'm forced to book another train for tomorrow, leaving in the morning and arriving in the evening (19:12). I spend the afternoon running through Vienna, getting my bike from the mechanic, who did some last-minute checks and got it ready for the tour. I'm almost all the way through my list, even got the 1:300 000 map of Poland, just missing sandals...do I really need that PDA?... read more

So I'm going to start from the very beginning, it's a very good place to start. After leaving Ibiza, I went from one airport to another to catch another plane to Vienna. I was picked up from the airport from my friend, Sonia (from work at home). We were staying in a gorgeous little town called Monchof, where my friend and I were really the only ones who could speak English, luckily Sonia could translate for me. We went for a bike ride and people were stopping and staring at us, we were definately not locals! We had some schnitzel, but not with noodles. We headed into Vienna for a day of sightseeing, Sonia was my tour guide. Then I was off to Salzburg and more importantly The Sound of Music tour! As we headed off ... read more

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