Intercityhotel Wien Vienna

... do - head towards the city with no map and see what happens. We stumble upon a huge palace that these days is a gallery, known as the Belvedere. We walk around the large landscape gardens, but ignore the actual gallery. From here we head for 20minutes in the wrong direction altogether, because I was spending most of my time looking at the buildings rather than concentrating on my internal ...

At last can settle down and write about our trip. We arrrived in Löndon after a long and tiring trip best part was a ride in the Airbus A380 lots more space and very quiet, at the airport we were met by a mini bus to take us to our hotel only one other passenger, she recognised us because she had stayed at Cloud Nine a few weeks earlier - small world. next morning after a early morning walk to the Marble arch in Hyde park we ...

... so OH WELL! Last Thursday we visited the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It's always funny to hear organizations try to spin what they do into a positive light. OPEC was really talented at doing so, especially b/c they are an oil cartel! But, hey, at least we got a free polo shirt! ;) That night we had a group BBQ. It was really fun to spend some time outside with everyone. At one point we looked up ...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds ...

... 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 ...

... a-Sound-Of-Music! We had a lovely guide named Monica wearing the traditional dress known as diendal (spelling?) show us around her home town. Salzberg actually refers to the salt mines that made the city rich centuries ago, and buildings here tend to cluster in age groups some from the 17th century, some from the 12th, and still others from as long ago as the 7th century! The city of approximately 150 000 people is home to 123 churches including the baroque ...

... and how our future thoughts have changed since our arrival. We are both looking forward to home but we are more than happy that we still have three or so more months left. We have also had a great time comparing Viennese culture to the French culture. A few differences but, overall, a lot of European similarities. Vienna is quite the city. For one, its rather large compared to Rennes. There are about 1.64 million people living in Vienna. That is huge compared to the just ...

... who was going to head back to his hostel, but we are going to meet up with him again in Budapest for dinner on Saturday. In search of basically any form of sustenance, we found a café to grab a bite. Yet again, we got an angry Austrian waiter who basically found every way to ignore us, be rude to us, and I'm sure he spit on our food. He drove us to the point of leaving him a 20 cent tip. After being reminded that "gratuity was not included ...

Greetings from Wien, better known as Vienna, Austria. Heck with coffee, and internet cafe here has a full range of beer! But Vienna is also known for coffee, so I'm trying to OD on all my bad habbits before wandering off the face of civilization again. We left our very accomodating hosts in Unterschelißheim after 2 weeks which just vanished into bike repair, and a long long list of errands which had been stacking up in the 'next time we're in western ...

... gardens that, even in March, held some of the most radiant flowers and complexly shaped shrubs I have ever seen. Our first move was to tackle the palace and the rooms inside. Brian and I got an audio tour through the massive mansion that explained all the rooms and their common use back when the palace was functioning as a place of residence. Every room was different and seemingly more ornate than the one before. As we passed through countless bedrooms ...