Hotel Capricorno Vienna

... and drinking all night with cheap 'free poor' drinks. Later everyone headed home except Scotty and I. We stayed on until the club closed in the daylight hours. Scott and I then went for a snack and headed home. Bed at 6-7am, up to 8am for a day of heavy sight seeing. Scotty didn't make it out of bed, ha:) DAY 36 - VIENNA Understandably today I was very hungover with a decent headache. Throughout the day, I did the usual and drank water the entire day, totalling 5 ...

... sex notwithstanding...I had a general feeling that in Austria they are very liberal and open-minded in this respect...





another temporary exhibition we happened to catch in Vienna by chance was "German Silver after Bauhaus"...we were walking along the Ringstrasse past the Post Office Savings Bank, and my dear angel was pointing out to me various architectural details of this fine Art Nouveau building...we ...

Greetings and welcome to our last musings on a wonderful month away... After a much needed sleep in and morning cappuccino, Bianca and I headed over to the Prater to ride the famous Riesenrad to hopefully get a nice view of Vienna from the air. The Riesenrad, was built in the late 1890's and was Vienna's first (and only until recently) Ferris wheel. It had 15 large gondola's and takes about 20 minutes to go around. It reminds me ...

... gatherings. I kept wandering aimlessly, and soon found myself in a place which I had not realised was so close to Hofburg; the Museum Quarter. Well, I thought, that's a trip for a different day - so I quickly removed myself (after some photos of course) and went round to a little park the name of which I've forgotten (no, I haven't! It was burg-garten). It was beside a butterfly house, which was so very tempting as I figured it'd have to be nice and warm in ...

... with Graeme behind me...we clocked a great speed up to around 36km/per hour, Carl then decided to increase it to around 39km.....a bit too much for us, so we left them to fly ahead. Arrived in Vienna, wondered through the town...and watched the sad soccer game between the Netherlands and Russia...well I wont mention the score but the Netherlands defenitely didnt win. We were watching it at a Italian restauarant...run by a Russian couple....?? Only ...

We had planned on catching a train from Budapest but as luck would have it a Hungarian train strike forced us to take the bus. The bus was packed with people travelling out of the country, but it was quite a bit cheaper. We arrived into Vienna and had to take the metro to our hostel. The metro system was very easy to use. It's so relieving to arrive in a new city and be a ble to get rid of the backpacks without any hassle. The whole ordeal of having to ...

... was bought up during this era gave us her personal experiences about those times. Things were certainly not easy for her and her family under this system and have improved greatly since the early 1990´s. As we went through Brno (correct spelling), which is in Moravia she pointed out hundreds of blocks of concrete flats for the workers of the industry there. It was very cold in the winter and hot in the summer.There was a ...

... culture, history and architecture boxes we decided that we were hungry. Sticking with the theme of Austrian experiences we headed for a pub that promised several home-brews on tap and according to the Rough Guide for Europe "good, solid Viennese cooking." Well, this pub did not disappoint. The pub did indeed have 7 different types of beer on draught and each one seemed to taste better than the last. As for the food, I enjoyed some traditional weiner ...

... austria/germany tour in 2005. so he gave us a poster fromt he tour and bryan adams guitar pic from one of the shows!!! way cool!!! we headed out this morning and not only did we find the guest house but we found the school he went to as well. gret success!!!! we're off to italy for more adventures!!! miss you all!

... replied my complaint with an apology and the gift of a CD. But the Musikverein in my view was bureaucratic and insufferable. They basically told me that because diplomats paid a lot more admissions than I did and their expensive seating areas have thicker carpets (I never knew that) they could re-enter the concert and I wonder how that's not going to interfer with an ongoing performance. I'd hate to even bring up ...