Blogs from Vienna, Austria, Europe - page 108

For the first time "HI!" ...to all our known and unknown readers! Vienna, that is where we live for almost 10 years. Where we will also stay for the next 3 weeks before we leave for our 5months trip around the world. We did a lot of preparation for the journey, lots of planning, shopping (I think we got more safety-things than we will take clothes with us). We are increasingly becoming nervous about the journey which will lead us to 4 continents (5 if we include our starting point vienna and the short stay at Zurich airport) For starting you will find some photos of vienna and of my hometown Waidhofen, where we saw cows and Feuer-Salamander. Well thats all for today. 2 more weeks of working, one week of additional preparation, and than we ... read more

Thought I’d do a typical tourist thing so I got going early and got my ticket for the Lipizzaner stallions “training with music”. The show is on tour at the moment so it was the younger horses, who were mostly grey still though a couple were pretty close to white. You could see how much better the older ones were, doing the walk backwards things, sideways and the other stuff they do. Despite many announcements about not taking photos some idiots still had their flashes going. At least I had the brains to turn the flash off and hide in the corner ;) From here I walked across to the other side and a tour of the Kaiserapartments, Sisi museum and stupid dinner services, which luckily the audio tour let you skip so I ditched the ... read more

So after getting a train from Linz to Vienna, it was full and left me sitting in with the bags for an hour and a half ... much fun!!! Arriving into Westbanhof, I walked to Wombat's hostel, which is one of the best in Europe according to all reports, and it was very good and very clean with everything you expect and want. So no complaints there. After a shower and shave it was off to Shonbrunn Palace to re-aquaint myself with the city I visited just over a year ago with Contiki. So after finding a street leading to Schonbrunn Palace, my first taste of reminiscing came when I passed the infamous bar where Pricey and me had a beer on our first night in Vienna. Good to see its still there and going strong, ... read more

Hello again, I just wanted to add another note about the trip to Vienna and the current conditions here in Vienna. On the way up here I stopped in at the home of Lamborghini and looked through a lot of different models the people there was really relaxed and let me just do whatever I wanted (bar driving them) But I was also fortunate to see the italian lamborghini police car! after checking it out it drove off and the driver couldn't resist showing off - spinning all 4 wheels easly awhile travelling about 80kms per hr.. quite impressive. When I first arrived in Vienna it was icey cold but sunny, today 3rd Nov it has been blizzarding on and off with periods of sun mostly. It's so clean and fresh here but so cold I ... read more

Hello from Vienna! Well, it was the best of times, and today was the worst of times. But somehow we managed to stay smiling! Friday after classes, me and JC from Hamilton (who's also studying at the University of Ljubljana with me) took off on 7 hour train ride to Vienna. We arrived late, so basically we just found our hostel and crashed. We're staying at the Hostel Ruthensteiner (http://www.hostelruthensteiner.com/), which is very clean, though a little noisy at night. Yesterday, we started out at the Spanish Riding Museum, watching Lipanzer horses train in a huge indoor ring that seemed more like a palace from the outside than a stable and riding ring! It was more interesting for JC who rode horses for a lot of her life than for me, but still... neat to see. ... read more