Quick stop over in Vienna on route to Prague.

Another long day of train travel. We thought that we would be a bit clever and take a few hours stop in Vienna on our way too Prague, just to see a few of the sites. We were up bright and early, packed, and ready to go, on the train at 9am. It took until 12 to get to Vienna and we jumped off thinking that we would do a quick 4 hour stop, see a bit of the town, have a bite to eat, wander for abit… but it didn’t quite go to plan like that. What we didn’t realize was that the station we got off at was different to the station that we had to connect to for Prague, so, realizing this we thought that we would first go to our new station, dump our bags and THEN wander… but again, it didn’t work like this… It took us just on an hour to figure out the Metro for Austria and make it to the new station, then another half hour or so to dump our bags. We were exhausted by now! We wandered the streets until we found a little restaurant that served Vienna Snchital and beef goulash, both a bit of an Austrian specialty. We ate these and were impressed with the taste factor and washed it all down with a nice cool drink (Austrian beer for Chris, OJ for me)

As we finished up our meals we began to hear these almighty claps of thunder, the sky went black and it became cool. Realizing that if we didn’t get our skates on we’d become more than a tad bit damp, we quickly paid and made a run for it back to the station, thunder clapping over head and lightening zig zagging across the sky as we did so.

Back at the station (and safely avoiding the storm) we realized that there was a train leaving in a few minutes. It was a HUGE rush but we made it onto the 3pm train safe and sound and just in the nick of time.

I now write this on our train that is running an hour and 10 minutes late thanks to renovation works that were being carried out on one of the main terminals. We are tired, sleepy and ready to get off the train. Prague we are told is an amazing place, it is MEANT to be cheap but with more tourists hearing this and frequenting this city the cost has gone up somewhat. We are still hoping that it will be cheaper than London or Ireland!

Will write and let you know of Prague and its expensive tomorrow!

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Chris and Emily on June 25, 2009 from Vienna, Austria

from the travel blog: Europe 2009

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