Austria Classic Schlosshtl Oth Baden

... na 1 biertje (oh, hij is 17, en Anna was vol in mutti-mode) helemaal los kwam en over rotsklimmen en snowboarden begon te vertellen.
Ow, en verder heb ik natuurlijk het hele weekend ontzettend hard geleerd, want ik had dinsdag mn mondeling! Spannend! Ik was in het 'Erasmus-uurtje' ingedeeld, dus ik dacht, nou, die andere Japanners spreken ook slecht Duits.. Zat ik gewoon met twee Weners! Waarvan dr eentje ook nog een geboren spraakwaterval was! Maar het ...

... ca. 60 km. Früher bin ich in harten Trainingswochen über 200 km gelaufen. Mein Ziel ist eine Zeit knapp unter 26:30 Minuten. Die ersten 100 km werden in ca. 10:10 h bis 10:20 h angelaufen. Die ersten 15 h sollten sehr kontrolliert gelaufen werden. Danach wird es bekannterweise sehr schwer kontrollierbar. Mein Siegertipp: Joe Wagner mit einer Zeit knapp um die 24 h. Er trainiert sehr hart und gezielt auf den Bewerb hin.

... ones they hand out at Burger King. This vessel was supposed to be used for baptisms, but since it's made out of solid gold, it was too heavy to use. So that's why there's that little one in the left corner.

After a stressy and all too quick trip home for grannys funeral which is something I'm really not going to go into here and now, it was into the last 2 days of camp which absolutely flew by. Now sitting at the same internet cafe in Praterstern and trying to get my head around leaving in 3 days! I feel like I havent done loads of what I want to do, but dont have the ...

... Then, my next destination was the Opera. It operated various language guided tours a few times a day, not to attend an opera. Without a guided tour, you couldn't walk around the theater. Anyway, the guide explained the whole inside, but I was busy with taking pictures and couldn't listen to her explanation... I was quite tired when I left the Opera, because I had carried my large backpack on the whole day. As a matter of fact, I couldn ...

... emotional stage when I announce "This is LAST time I'll ride this trolley." Or "This is LAST time I'll eat at this restaurant." Or "This is LAST time I'll sleep in this bed." Right now, I'm just high as a kite so I thought I would share some stories from Vienna that didn't make it in to the blog in a timely manner. Pigeons I have no patience for pigeons. They deceive people with their sparkly feathers and their astounding ability to walk faster than ...

... I got a free dinner and breakfast. They told me I could stay there again if I still had no money. I left soon after 8am and walked straight to the Australian embassy. It was a long walk, but I enjoyed seeing all the grand buildings in the city centre. It was kind of sad though because I thought I would have no money for several days and would miss out on going to the art galleries and things I'd been looking forward to. For some reason I was a little scared of ...

... we have been on the huge ferris wheel, going to the park with big slide and will have lunch in Vienna too. We arrive back in Sydney on Friday morning and hopefully will get some full nights sleep once we are all back in our own beds/cot - Abby has only slept thru 3 full nights since we have arrived... We hope you have enjoyed reading our entries and looking at some of our photos, see you all very soon. Love Jodi, Zoli & Abby.

... to some girl from L.A. who was WAY too talkative for 8:00 in the morning, and then we were finally inside. The church itself was also a little bit of a shock, since it wasn't really the huge elaborate cathedral-like building that I had been expecting. However, it was definitely a beautiful church in its own right, and the music during the mass was totally amazing. Time for the next disappointment: since the choir and orchestra (!) were seated in the ...

... were several statues.

After visiting the palace, we were taken to one of the many plazas in Vienna, so that we could do some exploring/shopping/sightseeing on our own. We walked up the Center Square, a large pedestrian area in the center of the city. Here you can shop, sit at one of the many sidewalk cafes to have coffee or some of the fine desserts and sweets you will find anywhere, or just sit and take it all in. Sitting and sipping seems to be a ...