Blogs from Austria, Europe - page 259

Salzburg is awesome. Salzburg is a very walkable town, and with our hotel being in the old section of town, it is very easy to navigate to the most interesting sites in the city. The Christmas markets are just a few blocks away. The first hint we were near the action wasn't the aroma of sausages and gluhwein, but of the horses - that pull the carriages around town that base at Residence Platz. When we walk into Residenceplatz there were market stalls all around, with garland, lights and a huge decorated tree in the middle. In Austria I learn that the "specialty" Christmas trinket is a cluster of arranged cinnamon sticks, anise, cloves, ribbons of gold and other colors, bundled in small balls. Not only are they great to smell, but they make wonderful Christmas ... read more

Tuesday Dec 12th It was a relatively nice day in Vienna.. still freezing cold..but it looked like the sun was making a genuine attempt at gracing us with her presence..so we decided to take a stroll towards the Schonbrunn Castle. We had heard that there was a garden maze, a zoo, and the old faithful- a Christmas market within the castle... Armed with the GPS we hit the streets of Vienna. The walk was supposed to be an easy 15-20 min walk..after about an hour and 15 mins we saw the grand doors of the castle :) Although the walk took longer than accepted, the GPS did not fail us a bit and it actually was a very nice walk in new neighborhoods. The Schonbrunn Castle looked impressive from the courtyard.. and we made a mental ... read more

thoughts before action: after two weeks full of chaos i finally made it to the airport. selling my car to an wierd guy called flo for a beer and hearing the sounds of the funny squirrel form ice age during i go on to the plane to london. starting a new area of my life with an interesting mix of feelings. special thanks to my family and all my friends who made this possible especially to floese and master g. for the last support on the airport! as i should realize later its just possible to travel without fearing anything if you know that you had and will have good times again with your friends. i am not searching for any answer or try to escape because i didn’t come along in "real" live, what ... read more

We arrived in Vienna approximetly a week ago.. and what a week has it been!! Both Dave and I got pretty sick... I had clear symptoms of the flu when we left LA..and it got horribly worst in Vienna.. and to make things even more exciting I managed to pass on my good fortune to my better half...things weren't all bad though..we managed to locate all the pharmacy's in our neighborhood.. and learned very quickly that Vienese have a soft spot for homeopathic medicine :) Our trip to Vienna was ok... Swiss air definetly has it's plus'.. but similar to most airlines.. not enough leg room.. specially if you live in a 6 foot body... Dave was not a happy man after about 6 hours in that seat.. and we had another 5 to go..ouch! We ... read more

... we leave - our families - our friends - vienna so it´s not easy. but exciting. very exciting. so I´ve just got travelfever because of nervousness. some things are still left to do and we try to manage everthing, especially meeting people we will not see again till june. that´s reason enough for a party we had at café benno on saturday! It was very funny, we got a lot of tipps (staying alone during the journey for some days, wiping cans before drinking, quick drying panties, ...) and for return we had a tombola, with 75% winning chance!!! prices from our household emerges excitment amougst our guests (candles, crushed nuts, a potpourri, hair pins a.s.o)... so we thank you very much for coming up, saying god bye and buying a ticket for the tombola! ... read more