Lindner Am Belvedere Vienna

... version, named Hofer. Rich and Jake decided to gamble 94 cents on two Berg König Märzen cans. They lost, but it was cheaper than a lottery ticket.<br><br>We all took a nice long nap before our evening adventures. It was off to the Konzerthaus for a night of Mozart. We heard excellent examples of Mozart works as well as Haydn and Strauss, all of whom once called Vienna home. Barb enjoyed the expressiveness of the opera singers ...

... really meet and hang out with Bianca's twin, we have been also been able to meet and hang out with her incredibly international and interesting group of friends here... So over the last few days we managed to hit many of the major and interesting sights, the few highlights other than what we saw our first day are as follows... 1. Schloss Schonbrunn - the beautiful and immaculate summer palace of the Hapsburg's, initially built outside the city but now ...

... phone booths in the station and smooched semi-privately for ten minutes or so, when I got a tap on my bright-red-jacket-clad shoulder. Five emergency rescue personnel were standing behind me. Tim and I looked at them and wondered if they were trying to get us to stop or leave. One of them moved to the next phone booth over. We peeked out. There was a belligerent drunk, also wearing a bright red jacket, just one phone booth down. The five EMTs converged on ...

... it was pretty miserable weather and not fun to be outside so after we made a trip to the travelshack - where you could also get a coffee, cake and half hour on the internet for 3 euro, bargain - we had a little look around but just ended up back at the hostel.<br><br>Day two meant a back up of the travelshack where I had 2 vegemite toasties this time! <br><br> <br><br>The Aussie guy that worked there also showed us ...

... lunch we cycled with Carl and Rita, a lovely South-African couple who are doing the trip on a tandem. They are such a great team, Carl who used to race sits on the front, and Rita on the back, he moves the pedals and she just needs to move without using much strenght. He just asks her to help out when climbing hills...the rest of the time she can "sit back" and take pictures...nice! And they can do a great speed too, I set behind them for a while ...

... headed to some place somewhere in the city and found a phone booth to catch up with the fam back home, I ended up talking for 2 ½ hours total, which equivlates to 26 Euro, yikes. After that began my adventures back to the hostel where I bought a pint and downloaded the latest episode of lost - what?! I need my fix. The following day I did some more church seeing and city wandering, I hit all the main parts the previous days then caught a train to Bratislava, Slovakia - only an hour away.

Hi After a 6.15 wake up call and a look out the front window we decided to wear shorts as it was raining steadily. Had a reasonable breakfast and commenced our trip towards Vienna at 7.45am. It was still raining and there was a mist settling over the countryside. We were driven from Bohemia into Moravia and southwards into Austria. The first two states were both controlled by the Communists from 1951 to 1989 and our guide ...

... on the way and before we knew it we had completely missed the square. Fortunately, the downtown of Vienna is not very big and we were able to double back without too much trouble, but this was just the start of our navigating difficulties in this city. We did, however, spend the rest of the night wandering around the romantic looking buildings and admiring the architecture that make up Vienna's main city centre. On day two we decided to visit one of ...

... The tour met up and we headed to the Schnapps museum. this museum had been family run for 60-70 yrs, the front office had original furniture from the world wars and the owner was a funny man who looked like Kernal Sanders!! We ended up trying the different schnapps along the bar, some of us ended up a bit seedy, there were about 30 different schnapps we could try. ended up buying 2 different bottles, one with real gold flecks in it and a ...