with the sound of music of course!
March 3, 2011
Phew! What a day… Lyndsee and I are on our way to Austria. So far, the road is a little bumpy... We left Orvieto at 3:45, and….. I forgot my bag. On the bench. At the train station. It was quite the ordeal. Luckily there was a train guy standing next to me when I went frantic and luckily good ol’ Rachel Cooper was still at the train station waiting for her train to Castiliogne Fiorentino. She went and grabbed my bag and the nice train man called someone he knew at the station in Orvieto. So Lyndsee and I got out at Orte and met the train coming with my bag on it. This is when the day gets better. There are 3 types of trains: Regional trains that stop at every station and take forever to get to your destination, Intercity trains that just stop at the main destinations like Rome and Florence, and then there is RV trains, and we don’t know what the heck those are… Anyway the train we were on was a regional train because it is super cheap and the train my bag was on was an Intercity train. Originally we thought we were going to have to wait for the next regional train since that is the type of train we purchased the ticket for, but the conductor let us get on the Intercity (IC) train since there was a crisis at hand. There were many “Grazie Milles” to the conductor. So now we are sitting on the train, my laptop battery about to die, on our way to the airport. More to come!
First day in Vienna! March 4, 2011
So a bit of a scare last night when we got in. The hostel lost our reservation, and all their rooms were booked....except for 1: a room for 20. Luckily, nobody else was in it. So Lyndsee and I got our private room with plenty of beds to choose from. It was really hard to decide which bed would be best. The really small bunk bed with a yellow pillow and comforter from the 70's or the really small bunk bed with a yellow pillow and comforter from the 70's. Thank goodness for clean sheets and a clean comforter cover. And they were sparkling white, so I KNOW they were clean. Today the hostel made up for the mistake though with a much nicer room. Now the comforter and pillow are patterned so I can't tell that they are gross. Still have the clean sheets though... this is good. But almost sure you aren't reading this to find out about my sketchy hostel situations. So here is what we did today...
We started the day off with a tour of the Schonbrunn Palace. Or as I prefer to call it, the yellow castle. Next we went to St. Stephens Cathedral. You should probably google it since it will be forever before I get pictures on facebook, but it was beautiful. The vaulted ceilings were amazing. They weren't barrel vaulted or handkerchief vaulted, but more like spiderweb vaults; just beautiful... After that went to Mozart's Viennese house (his longtime residence was in Salzburg, but Vienna likes to take credit too). Then we just explored Vienna for a bit. The metro system is super clean and ridiculously easy to use so it doesn't really matter where you want to go in the city, you can be there in a matter of minutes. And thats all for now!
March 3, 2011
Phew! What a day… Lyndsee and I are on our way to Austria. So far, the road is a little bumpy... We left Orvieto at 3:45, and….. I forgot my bag. On the bench. At the train station. It was quite the ordeal. Luckily there was a train guy standing next to me when I went frantic and luckily good ol’ Rachel Cooper was still at the train station waiting for her train to Castiliogne Fiorentino. She went and grabbed my bag and the nice train man called someone he knew at the station in Orvieto. So Lyndsee and I got out at Orte and met the train coming with my bag on it. This is when the day gets better. There are 3 types of trains: Regional trains that stop at every station and take forever to get to your destination, Intercity trains that just stop at the main destinations like Rome and Florence, and then there is RV trains, and we don’t know what the heck those are… Anyway the train we were on was a regional train because it is super cheap and the train my bag was on was an Intercity train. Originally we thought we were going to have to wait for the next regional train since that is the type of train we purchased the ticket for, but the conductor let us get on the Intercity (IC) train since there was a crisis at hand. There were many “Grazie Milles” to the conductor. So now we are sitting on the train, my laptop battery about to die, on our way to the airport. More to come!
First day in Vienna! March 4, 2011
So a bit of a scare last night when we got in. The hostel lost our reservation, and all their rooms were booked....except for 1: a room for 20. Luckily, nobody else was in it. So Lyndsee and I got our private room with plenty of beds to choose from. It was really hard to decide which bed would be best. The really small bunk bed with a yellow pillow and comforter from the 70's or the really small bunk bed with a yellow pillow and comforter from the 70's. Thank goodness for clean sheets and a clean comforter cover. And they were sparkling white, so I KNOW they were clean. Today the hostel made up for the mistake though with a much nicer room. Now the comforter and pillow are patterned so I can't tell that they are gross. Still have the clean sheets though... this is good. But almost sure you aren't reading this to find out about my sketchy hostel situations. So here is what we did today...
We started the day off with a tour of the Schonbrunn Palace. Or as I prefer to call it, the yellow castle. Next we went to St. Stephens Cathedral. You should probably google it since it will be forever before I get pictures on facebook, but it was beautiful. The vaulted ceilings were amazing. They weren't barrel vaulted or handkerchief vaulted, but more like spiderweb vaults; just beautiful... After that went to Mozart's Viennese house (his longtime residence was in Salzburg, but Vienna likes to take credit too). Then we just explored Vienna for a bit. The metro system is super clean and ridiculously easy to use so it doesn't really matter where you want to go in the city, you can be there in a matter of minutes. And thats all for now!
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