Parkhotel Krems

... having trouble coming up with a question, so that&#8217;s what I will probably spend the weekend doing, along with reading. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been here 2 weeks and I have yet to actually study, but there just wasn&#8217;t anything to do until now.<br><br>Webster took us on a 1 hour tour of the Vienna highlights on Tuesday, which was a nice opportunity to get our barrings and know what we all wanted to see. On ...

... I don't use the c-word) upstream to Spitz. Johann's famous melody kept waltzing around my head, but although the river could be described as beautiful, it definitely wasn't blue; more like a dull green. In Spitz I wandered through the vineyards that surround the town, and up into the forest on the hills for brief views over the town and river. Amazingly, the sun put in an appearance for about 5 minutes, but by the time I was back down ...

Continuing our tour of the Wachau valley, we visited a castle on the very edge of the Danube (Schloss Schönbühel) but it appeared to be closed to the public. We walked around the exterior a bit and stood on the riverbank, admiring the river and surrounding valley. The sun had disappeared and it started to rain so we got back in the car and headed to Burgruine Aggstein.<br><br>This is a great castle ruin. It is very high above the ...

... br><br>She was still there in the morning and as friendly as the night before. The rooms were comfortable and the food was good, and the price was great, but unfortunately I can't remember the name of the hotel! Hopefully I have a receipt with their name somewhere so I can do some advertising for them.<br><br>After breakfast we drove back to Melk and parked near the river. We walked ...

... s someone else doing it too. The scenery varies between narrow gorge and wider embankments leading to dams every few miles. There are castles and churches everywhere. Its very pretty but after the first twenty or so. I needed to make a bit more progress, my initial target came up about 12.00. So we had lunch in a pretty glade by the river and she turned off to geocache and I pushed on. It was an even narrower gorge and quite pretty. I ...

... and a half totally lost and bored. After this i went to my class where i met some really nice girls who i now sit next to. We only had class for two hours and then i went and got ice cream with Nina one of Mirjams good friends that befriended me and then she took me to the bus station. My bus ride to school is about 40 minutes so i will be watching the breakfast club and juno a lot this year! (those are the movies that i have on my ipod). So today i got up at 5:50 again ate breakfast ...

... apple strudel which was very yummy. I was able to stay up until about six when i told Mirjam that i had to take a nap and she said she would wake me up before dinner. So i slept till eight, ate dinner, talked the family a little bit, then went right back to bed for 13 hours. Today once i woke up we went to St. Pölten and shopped a little bit for Mirjam and then we went to the bank where i got an account that my rotary money will automatically go into and i get a card for it ...

... to the venue. What we didn't know is that we would be in a car full of Austrians. It doesn't sound too unreasonable to be in a car full of Austrians in Austria, but Miriam and I were scared. Even though I secretly give myself a pat on the back every time I have a complete German transaction in a grocery store, I still don't speak German and I definitely don't understand it. I was painfully reminded of this fact every time ...

... on Saturday. Starting Sunday, I have off until the beginning of October. So Nick and I are trying to figure out where to travel to right now. The current plan is to go to Munich on Sunday, where Oktoberfest is currently happening. We would stay there for 2 nights and meet up with a friend from college friends. (Kathrin Strothe from Wellesley, and possibly Patrick Dunn and his friend from Babson). We would then take a train down to Innsbruck on Tuesday ...

... attraction but to be honest, I really didn´t fancy it all that much. That night we found an Irish pub to watch the football games. Then we headed to a local club that was supposed to have dancing but for some reason the dance club was closed. So we just sat and had a couple cocktails. That was about it for Vienna. Since neither of us really cared for it, the next day we headed off to Budapest.