Hotel Kummer Vienna

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We eventually end up in the centre of the city, at Stephansplatz, home to the massive Stephansdom (St Stephens Cathedral). It really is quite impressive, inside and out.

From there we end up at the Museumsquartier area, home to a large number of museums and parks. We bump into another English guy who had done the same as us - get a £4 flight to Bratislava and have a mooch ...

... old city and the red light area anything goes in Amsterdam, we saw the diamond factory but no free samples. We then travelled through Gerrmany Heidelberg the and the rhine land visited the magnificent Cologne cathederal and did a river cruise of the Rhine and saw lots of Castles including the famous red Castle at Heidelberg On then to Switzerland through tthe black forest to Lake Lucerne where we had a lake view from our ...

Or more accurately how to spend a day in vienna and stay sane. Its a big crowded city. Yes there are a lot of historic buildings but they are all spaced out and I'm a bit sick of buildings by now so not many photo's. Got chatting in the bar last night with various american tourists doing europe by backpacker hostels. There experience is very different; basically major cities where language isn't a problem and fast trains between them ...

Finally today everything is waterproofed, packed and I am ready to go ... I am leaving for Santiago de Chile in the early afternoon (Vienna-Paris-Sao Paulo-Santiago) ... The great adventure begins! I'll try to keep you updated with pictures and news what is going on. Going from temperatures below 0 (C°) to 30°C will also be ...

... european fare at decent prices. Best of all the people are mid-west friendly. More like a small town in Iowa than a European capital. We spent most of the day walkng around in the beautiful sunshine with no humidity just taking in the incredible architecture of the city. What a treat it was to leverage their great subway system going where ever we wanted. With absolutely zero stress. We also managed to hit two amazing museums ...

... of cool photos and hope to share them with you upon my return. It's a bit hard here cos the application thing to set up photos is slow and dodgy and I don't want the comp to freeze up so sorry about that. Oh and did I mention that I saw the POPE in Rome? And the Colosseum? How cool is that!!! I'm not religious, but still how many people in NZ can say they've been in the same place as the POPE in person?! I think ...

... We are both veggie deprived. It was a neat restaurant and I'm really glad that we decided to see if it was open. Check! After lunch, we just wandered around until we met up with some of her classmates at another cafe. I quickly drank a cafe latte before heading back for my tour. Little did I know, they have the "cafe creme" that I love in Rennes, here in Vienna. It has been noted and I will try it out in Vienna. Oh, to be a coffee lover. Tuesday evening was ...

... minutes later, our food arrived. My exposure to German/Austrian food is generally limited to that date scene in the move Fast Times at Ridgemont High, so I had naive this image of schnitzel as some type of sausage. I was ever so wrong. Those, we later discovered, tend to end in "-wurst," as I guess we should have known. It turns out that schnitzel is actually breaded and fried meat. And in our case, it was pounded out to be larger than the ...

Saturday night in Salzburg we had our Mozart concert and dinner. The dining room is in a part of the St. Peter Stiftkeller church. The food was pretty good, only it took a long time to get it. There was a music interval between each course and so we didn't end up having our main course until maybe 9:30 or 10. The music was very good through. There were six musicians and two opera singers. At one point, the male singer stood behind and put his hands on ...

... onto the old Hapsburg power house of Vienna. Back at the hostel we bumped into Danilo from Prague and a girl we had met in Prague from Seattle, named Dana. Brian was tired so he hit the hay and I went across half the city to a bar with Dana and Danilo for a couple of drinks. Around 3am we got back to the hostel and I was ready to catch some Zs. Thursday brought us a day to explore the great city. After an eleven o'clock wake up we headed north into the heart ...