Schloessl Hotel Kindl Bad Gleichenberg

... seemed like a mixture of old cheese, incense, and curry. There is a full length mirror in front of me, and on seeing my reflection I thought &#8220;What am I doing here, and didn&#8217;t I book a non-smoking room?&#8221;<br><br>Maybe a little exaggeration, but you know what they say about first impressions - I was more than a little skeptical.<br><br>Graz actually turned out to be a pretty nice spot for a couple of days. The hotel, once I ...

After a busy few days in Prague, we headed south for a relaxing time in Graz. It isn't as well known as Salzburg or some other cities in Austria, but this city is actually the country's second biggest, besides Vienna. It is also a very special place because this is where my grandfather (Opa) lived and spent a lot of his youth, and where much of his family has lived for a long time. <br><br>We stayed with my Opa's cousin Michaela, who lives in an ...

We drove from Vienna south to Graz, which was a lovely little city. We parked Fred along the river and walked into town. The main old square was having a chocolate festival! so there were a lot of people milling around with spoons in their hands. They bought the spoons and then could taste different kinds of chocolate from vendors&#8230;very tempting but we had things to see. We decided to take the glass lift through the hill to the top of Castle Hill ...

... packed.<br>Informed by hitchwiki.com i knew how to hitch out of Belgrad. That worked out well, and i was on the highway at around 9am. Thumbing directly on the motorway brings quick success, although most of the rides are short. I arrived at the boarder to Croatia after 3 rides, from there i was quite lucky. The next lift took me to Zagreb, and from there i immediatly caught a ride to ...

... is its Double Spiral Staircase, the only one in the world. <br>Finally we pay 2&#8364; and we enter to the Mausoleum, which is located just next to the Cathedral. It's nothing special but the view from the top of the tower is nice. <br>In the afternoon we go back to the hostel, carry our backpacks and go to the bus stop to go to the airport. Once there we eat our "breakfast sandwich" and kill time till the boarding hour ...

Daar waren we ook nog niet geweest!<br><br>Inwoners: 290.000. Daarmee de tweede stad van Oostenrijk. 44.000 studenten. Hoofdstad van Steiermark (waar we ook nog niet geweest waren..) Zusterstad van oa Groningen en Trondheim. Geboorte-oord van de Governator. 2 uur en 37 minuten verwijderd van Wien Sudbahnhof.<br><br>Dus daar stonden we dan, Paola en ik, om half negen 's ochtends op het meest onhandige station van Wenen om vervolgens twee en een half uur ons te ...

... working, instead of, sitting and drinking beer with 5 girls.. So, the whole plan had to be changed, instead of meeting other CS, i joined them and he showed me the main parts of the city.. Zagreb is nice, quite compareable to Graz.. Just girls are much more cute here :)<br>We arrived in Tomis flat some time ago, now cooking dinner and have some beers in 10-people-CS-community is planned..<br><br>So more later<br>cya<br>

... of august; Frequency festival has got a amazing line-up and i don´t want to miss that!<br><br>So i plan to hitchhike down till Greece, then passover Istanbul and go up somwhere through Bulgary and Turkey. A not-fixed plan in my head exists, but this can change with every ride i´ll get on the road...<br>- Zagreb for 2-3 days<br>- Pletvicka National Park<br>- Zadar and Kornates<br>- Split<br>- Dubrovnik<br>- Bay of Kotor<br><br><br>Some ...

... dinner we headed into town again to watch sunset from the castle tower. Surprisingly there were it hers up on the lookout too. Sunset took time coming and the light was not the best as it was cloudy but we stayed till the sun went and by 9.30pm we headed down the steps to the bottom and found a cafe for coffee and Wayne enjoyed an apple strudel. The were heaps of student types out enjoying the evening as we were. But by 11pm the streets were clearing and we got the tram back to camp.

here it is, stories from biking across Slovenia... zipped through slovenia in a day, rode a small northern corner. as we rode we passed about 30 road cyclists on training rides, sporty. we rode through murska sobota (murska sobota a city with the gang/group that likes to grafitti 'black gringos') which is an industrial city along an industrial highway, there is a bike lane though, but if you ...