Vienna
Vienna
We arrived at a horribly early hour - 6am! having had an ok night on the train (our sleep was punctuated by border crossing/passport control at 1am and again at 5am). we checked our bags into left luggage and after a railway station cafe breakfast (really not advised) we went out to see Vienna. It's a beautiful city in which every building seems to be decorated with columns and statues. It's clean, efficient (the tram is great) and as a result expensive. Still we're having a lovely time - the weather has been gloriously sunny and hot. We've been to some very interesting museums, there was a Klimt and Egon Schiele exhibition on called " The Naked Truth" so lots of pictures of boobs and willies! We've also been to an interactive Music museum which was great fun. We've also sampled the local food (good) and wine (great). Tomorrow we head for Bratislava - we considered driving but renting a car is way beyond our budget so we'll be back on the train.
Kath
Ant: I don´t know if you are receiving my SMSes... Please email me or text me. We are going to be in Bratislava from tomorrow til 30th, Budapest til July 3rd, Prague til 7th, Berlin til 10th and Paris 11th - 14th. - Andrew
We arrived at a horribly early hour - 6am! having had an ok night on the train (our sleep was punctuated by border crossing/passport control at 1am and again at 5am). we checked our bags into left luggage and after a railway station cafe breakfast (really not advised) we went out to see Vienna. It's a beautiful city in which every building seems to be decorated with columns and statues. It's clean, efficient (the tram is great) and as a result expensive. Still we're having a lovely time - the weather has been gloriously sunny and hot. We've been to some very interesting museums, there was a Klimt and Egon Schiele exhibition on called " The Naked Truth" so lots of pictures of boobs and willies! We've also been to an interactive Music museum which was great fun. We've also sampled the local food (good) and wine (great). Tomorrow we head for Bratislava - we considered driving but renting a car is way beyond our budget so we'll be back on the train.
Kath
Ant: I don´t know if you are receiving my SMSes... Please email me or text me. We are going to be in Bratislava from tomorrow til 30th, Budapest til July 3rd, Prague til 7th, Berlin til 10th and Paris 11th - 14th. - Andrew
posted by Andrew Chiu at 9:57 PM
3 Comments:
Glad to see your adventure is going well! I'm still jealous! I'm in UK now and spending the week trying to figure out the transport - it's a lot more complicated than I remember! But I've only got lost once so far, so I'm doing pretty good. I'm really enjoying your blog - keep posting!
Guess who???
Yeah, yeah, no need to guess, it says "Tappy said..."
Well i'm procrastinating from assignments again - not really, this is my 5 minute break.
Vienna must be gorgeous - i want to go there!!! I guess it's pretty much a given that one should stay far far away from airport/railway/bus station food, coz it's always really expensive and never really tastes that good.
I think it's a good thing you're not hiring a car - that would ruin the greatness of being able to say "We trained from Hong Kong to London." (i mean, imagine the stories you'll get to tell future generations - "When i was your age, before we had these crazy flying cars and space travel, we took a train from Hong Kong to London... no, not a steam one, those are even before my time... but yes, we did the whole trip overland, with the exception of the channel and a few other tunnels, then i suppose you'd say through land... heh heh heh... what was i saying again???"
Instead you would have to add an "almost"... and then people'll think you're lying and embellishing the whole adventure anyway. That wouldn't be any fun at all!!!
Righto, POWER TO THE TRAIN!!! WOO HOO!!!
*Happy Thoughts!*
PS. do you get the impression that i'm starting to live through you two??? i'm starting to wonder myself... better find something exciting to do some day!
PPS. Happy Birthday to Dad!!!
Chuga-chuga chuga-chuga chuga-chuga
Choo Choo!!!
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