Blogs from Austria, Europe - page 261

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

Hi everyone, I am now in Austria and it's snowing, here is my blog update Day 11 (31st) Halloween today and we spent that in Venice. This place is very interesting it’s known as the sinking city as it is slowly sinking into the ocean at around 1 foot per 10 years and this is very evident by the level of some of the doorways which need to be boxed in so the sea water doesn’t flood the residence. There are no cars or bikes at all on the main island so everyone gets around on foot or by boat mainly because the streets are so narrow, it’s really cool. After spending the day on the main island of Venice se went back to the mainland and visited some local pubs - a lot of ... read more

Wow, I just realized that I never wrote about my trip to Salzburg. At least, I don't think I did. I went there back at the beginning of September, so I won't remember all the details. But I should write it down before I forget even more than I have! I was accompanied by my friends Mike, Daniel, and Katie. We left on a Friday afternoon and got back on Sunday. The city of Salzburg isn't that big, so we managed to see quite a bit of it. The first night we were there (Friday) we only had time to find a youth hostel and eat dinner at a small, very friendly and homey restaurant. Our hostel was on the side of a mountain that was this really cute country house run by a lady who ... read more

Hwaet, and we went to the fair hamlet of Hallstatt. And the adventure started early. Between running from Spar to Hütteldorf Bahnhof (if youve been to my place, thats the trainstation you gotta bus to) and then the confusion of why we shouldnt change trains. (ours said 'to salzburg' but they told us not to change to the Salzkammergut, which as it turned out was because they dismantled our train and part went to Salzburg and part went to the Salzkammergut). And... on the train, we had a lot of time on our hands, and I had 2 music majors and an eric at my disposal. So I had them come up with how to transpose real music into a cell phone. (btw, the results of this endeavor can be viewed url=http://fliqz.com/FliqzWebPublic/Dynamic/proxy.aspx?IsInPlayer=true&VID=3294&ORIVID=3294&fliqzster=true&from=permahere Anyway, when we got ... read more