Blogs from Vienna, Austria, Europe - page 122

i got back in from vienna last night. on the whole, it was a very good trip. the train ride to austria was kind of rough. i requested a sleeper car on the way there, which is awkward, but i really wanted to sleep on the 14 hour ride over night. i guess the guy at termini misunderstood me, though, b/c i most certainly did not get a sleeper car. instead, i was in some little boxed in area with five other people. there was hardly any legroom at all, it was cold, and all around miserable. somehow i managed to get a few hours sleep, thankfully, but i was very happy to get off that train in vienna the next day. when i got to vienna i was a little nervous, to say the least, ... read more

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okay, so i just returned for a little sojourn around the general vicinity. it was a lot of fun and stuff. kristin, mike and myself started in vienna. kristen left soon after, mike and i continued on to salzburg, then slovenia, then zagreb and split, mike split to prague from split, i continued on to dubrovnik (croatia), then to sarajevo (bosnia), belgrade (serbia and montenegro), budapest hungary, and back to good ol' prague. it was a lot of fun, lots of beautiful sights and people along the way. i think i'll do three separate installments of pics. starting here with vienna and salzburg. vienna was amazing, very clean, lots of big parks and monuments, everyone was very friendly and happy to talk to us. a huge contrast to prague, which was a nice way to start ... read more

We make reservations for a couchetta (bed on the train, after figuring out 10 minutes on the ticket office), just remember we were on a low budget travel so we reserve for the cheapest ones meaning 6 people sleeping on a 3x2 meter cabin what a shocking experience, fortunately by logic we took the superior beds, just to put another element on the story it was summer and a very hot summer, so six people on that cabin felt like hell, the first thing was move you're backpack to your bed, at least on the top were more room, on the cabin we met a very nice english couple, but c'mon the temperature was crazy, suddenly the first shock the driver pass for check the tickets growning some thing in german, only the german couple that ... read more

Vienna ... info to come!... read more