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Today we only had a short drive to Vienna, we arrived there around lunch time which meant we had the afternoon to explore. First we went and got some lunch, I had a schnitzel salad and a Viennese coffee, both yummy. Then we went walking around the city, just taking in the beauty. We decided to go into Hofburg Palace and see the state apartments, we followed ...
Farewell Europe
... antique shop street to the park opposite the Hilton. We would have caught the tram that does the city loop past there, but another couple from the ship messaged us to say they were coming back to the Hilton and did we want to have dinner there. So we spent a very pleasant couple of hours having a quiet drink in the bar while the two boys reorganised airport transport, then we had the seafood Buffett. The Buffett was €45 ph but a very good spread and ...
WHAT you're LOST?!?!? I can help!
... something really cool that tourists could do but then fail to tell you WHERE it was....and embarassing story: We were at breakfast and I was staring at this one map for a good five minutes and finally I was like "okay guys, we apparently are not in Vienna because I cannot find our hostel ANYWHERE on this map." Turns out I was looking at a map of Bratislava or wherever, in a different country. Why they were giving those maps out is beyond me, but I ...
Visit to Vienna
... for the dinner/concert. The 4-course dinner was superb, especially the main course (veal medallions) and the concert was most enjoyable. The music was played by an ensemble of strings, flute, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, percussion and piano. They played a mix of Strauss, Mozart, Bizet and Rossini and included vocal soloists plus dancers. The quality was very high. Vienna may not be so impressive as a city but its music is first-class and made for a memorable ...
Not enough time
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Austria is on the euro so things arent quite as inexpensive as in Prage but still better than Italy and way way better than France.
The train ride to Ljubljana was beautiful in a completely different way than other rides throughout the trip. The amount of dark green wasoverwhelming, Some of the most dense forests I've seen. Every few minutes we'd hit a small break in the trees just wide enough to fit a few houses and some grazing ...
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