Ja gestern war es nun so weit, das Abschiedsfest! Mein Bruder und ich haben unseren Garten hergerichtet - Griller an und schon ging es los. Es war wirklich sehr lustig und es hat mich total gefreut, dass so viele gekommen sind. Jetzt ist der Abschied schon sehr nah, auf der einen Seite freu ich mich sehr auf Chile und die Herausforderungen die sich mir dort stellen. Auf der anderen Seite bin ich traurig, ich weiß es sind nur drei Monate, aber meine Freunde und Familie werde ich vermissen. So nun hoffe ich das ich heil wieder kommen, und ja ich pass [View Full Entry]

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Sunday 29th June: Franz lived up to the excellent tour reputation we have come to know him for by hiring a Cessna plane from his flying club for the afternoon. My family and I have known Franz now for 18 years so I was very confident in his flying ability which took me back to the days in Bright, Victoria where he used to jump off the Gorge at Mt Buffalo with a bloody Hang Glider! We drove to the airport not far from his home town of Baden on the outskirts of Vienna and wheeled the Cessna out of the [View Full Entry]

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Saturday 28th June: Franz banged on my door at 9am to get me up for a day of sightseeing in Vienna. My head was not in a good state after those cocktails from the previous night but I could not waste the day and soldiered on to the shower. We drove in to Vienna and then caught the Metro around inner Vienna and had lunch at the 'Schweizerhaus' which is famous for pork and crackle (We had the dish on the front of the green menu in the photo below). Within the vacinity was the large wheel - another famous icon [View Full Entry]

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Liebe Fußballfreunde, vergesst alle Statistiken, mystischen Zahlenspiele und Fundamentalanalysen - wir haben für Euch den wahren und einzigen Grund, warum Deutschland Europameister wird! Das Einzige was zählt, sind Fachwissen und Logik (Lukas Podolski: "Fußball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel!"). Sicherlich habt Ihr schon von der weltberühmten Wiener Pickerl-Tausch-Börse gehört, auf der es um die Vervollständigung seines Panini-Uefa-Euro-2008-Fußballbilder("Pickerl")-Klebealbum geht. Auf genau dieser waren wir schon vor zwei Wochen und auch heute. Und genau hieraus lässt sich der Grund ableiten, warum nur Deutschland Europameister werden kann (Rudi Völler: "Ich bin nicht abergläubisch, aber es hilft mir, wenn ich immer erst den linken [View Full Entry]

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Today is my last day in wonderfull Vienna, at least for now. Tonight is the finals of Euro 2008, Spain v Germany, and the whole city seems as if it is erupting in chants. It is fairly exciting, but ironic how annoyed I have become with the fans. I probably would not have come to Vienna were it not for the championships, yet as soon as I got here I was supremely dissapointed to find the most stunning historical architecture in the city square is fenced in a covered up by advertisements and "fan zones". I love the city regardless and [View Full Entry]

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Friday 27th June: Caught the bus from Budapest at 7am and arrived in Vienna at 10am where Franz (A good family friend from Vienna) met me and we drove back to his house in Baden. We walked around Baden and saw where Beethoven once lived and composed music before heading into Vienna for dinner and a drink. With the Euro 2008 Soccer Final being hosted by Vienna the night life and streets were an amazing buzz with nationalities from all over the world here. Later Franz took me to a cocktail bar he used to frequent some years ago and when [View Full Entry]

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I am in Vienna, also known as Wein, for the finals of the Euro Cup 2008. I arrived yesterday after an easy train ride through the Austrian countryside. It was my first day of travel on my eurail pass and it was very easy navigating the train stations, suprisingly. I am very pleased with the lack of snags and hang ups I have expirienced so far, but Im sure this will change eventually. Originally I had planned on leaving munich and the 24 un June, but since germany made it to the semi finals I decided to stay there and watch [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, Just wanted to send a quick post saying that we are alive in Vienna. Watching the game at the Euro FanZone was awesome beyond awesome...despite the thunder and lightning. When we were in line for the match, the security people who were patting us down got to talk to us and Leah mentioned to her's that we were at a loss of where to stay. At the end of the match, the girl offered us a place at her apartment for the night...quite the upgrade from the aforeplanned train station. So we are here, getting ready for bed, after [View Full Entry]

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Lots to tell hope you have time to read. After leaving Rome Karina and i headed for Venice for a few days. The first night there we stayed in a bed and breakfast on an island about half an hour out of the city which of course we had to take a water taxi to get to. After we dropped off our bags Karina and i decided to take a bike ride around the outskirts of the island to have a look around, as we rode the sun began to set turning the sky to an amazing deep red and a [View Full Entry]

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Freitag, 20. Juni 2008 18.10 Uhr Fred landet in Wien 18.25 Uhr Hadde bricht mit Kunden zum Spiel Kroatien-Türkei auf 19.15 Uhr Hadde ruft bei Anne an:" Hier am Stadion werden haufenweise Tickets verkauft!" 19.23 Uhr Fred betritt die Herzog'sche Wohnung Anne: "Wir müssen sofort zum Stadion, es gibt noch Karten für's Spiel!" 19.26 Uhr Die Babysitterin übernimmt Jonas 19.35 Uhr Anne und Fred verlassen die Wohnung 19.36 Uhr Fred: "Hallo Anne!" 19.38 Uhr Anne und Fred besteigen die U4 Richtung Innenstadt und steigen an der Station Schottentor in die U2 zum Stadion 19.57 Uhr Ankunft am Stadion 20.06 Uhr Kauf [View Full Entry]

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