What do you do if you have a long connection in Frankfurt? You go explore, of course! The weather was pleasant, so we did just that. I saw that you could store luggage at the Frankfurt rail station for much less than at the airport, so we did that. We bought a day transport pass for the three of us at a cost of about 19 Euro. It was 7 Euro to store each bag at the airport, and we were able to get all 4 of our bags in the rail station locker for a total of 5 Euro. Such a great tip! We had transited FRA many times, and have only seen the suburbs one time, so it was great to finally see some of the city center. Now of course, Frankfurt is no ... read more

I had to depart Warsaw early this day, sadly. I awoke at 4:00am and got myself ready. I checkout of the Novotel and walked over to the Centralna rail station. I cought a 5:35am train to WAW airport. Our first flight was at 7:35am, on LOT Polish Airlines to Dusseldorf. It was LOT flight 409, an EMB-175 aircraft. I was in economy seat 18D. We were going to have a very tight connection at DUS, and departing Warsaw 15 minutes late did not help. I chose Dusseldorf because it had the most open business class seats of all the Delta Europe departures. If we did not make it in time, our back up was to take an afternoon Air Berlin flight from DUS to Boston. That flight had 100s of open seats, so we were covered ... read more

I awoke at 6am, and got myself ready. I walked out to the main square and had some breakfast. I ate a quick meal at the McDonald's, and then I saw my travel buddy Jerome(Castex21). We walked around a little bit and then decided to meet up at the rail station for our 10:10am train to Warsaw. Everything worked as planned, and the train departed on time. We had a first class seat for about $20. It was a boring and routine train ride, but soon we were at Warsaw Centralana station for an on time arrival of 12:50pm. It looked to be a nice day! Jerome left to check in to his Airbnb, and I went to get my room at the Novotel. We decided to meet up at 4pm in front of the Palace ... read more

***Note--For reference, this is about an Eleven Heaven Meet Up from the TravBuddy website. Eleven Heaven was the nickname given to members who won all eleven awards possible from the site*** At first the thought of an Eleven Heaven meet up did not appeal to me. I decided later to try to the London event, due to it being easier for me to get to. I then figured that I have been to London many times, and Warsaw would be a better option. I had been once, but only for 24 hours, and this was 9 years ago. I wanted to see Poland again. I like it there. Such friendly people. Besides that, there was to be some famous people from TB, like Chokk, Hali, and EmyG. How could I not go and meet them? Flying ... read more

Once again, we arose early and went to the lobby for our breakfast. We then went to the zoo on our final day in Vienna. I was very impressed with the layout of the zoo. It does not have the typical animals in cages feel to it. It is spread out, and the animals have lots of space. It was voted "best zoo in Europe". It takes some time to really see everything, and we spent most of the day there. Of course, the pandas were one of the highlights of the zoo, but I liked the entire place really. I also loved the Rainforest House, and the Aquarium House. We had lunch at a little Tyrolean house on the hill above the zoo. They deconstructed this house in Tyrol, and moved it here in the ... read more