Thursday cont...
I tried out the free internet service at the station but could only check mail - no blog post unfortunately. It’s proving a bit difficult to get connected at the rate we are moving. Wendy and Ash went off to the shops to find something to eat on the train. The train trip was great and the train wound it’s way along the river bank through Slovenia and then climbed up through the mountains into Austria. Ash managed to call Edith on the mobile (she’s a sister of Imri, a lovely lady he’d met in Glasgow who kindly showed him around the city) and despite the short notice, she agreed to meet us at the station (next to the carved lion statue) and show us a round Vienna for the afternoon on Friday. We had also been in touch with another person, Guenter (who is an acquaintance of Bruce) and we had agreed to meet on Friday evening for dinner. Guenter had also managed to sort out our train ticket reservations to Krakow - a champion!
Arrived in Vienna on time at the huge Süd-bahnhof (railway station). Same old type of place with all sorts hanging around and lots of different languages being spoken. Always tricky to orient yourself when landing in a new place with no familiar surroundings, late at night and with a reference map that makes getting to the accommodation easy and is way too abbreviated. Bumped into some folks who had just done a day trip to Prague on the train, but they couldn’t help. Found an info booth and managed to get hold of a very detailed map and in the end Ash got us oriented. We found our pension (in an older neighbour hood) after about a 30 minute walk and we crashed once again around midnight (don’t know how we manage to keep doing it). Our itinerary sure is hectic, trying to cover so much in the limited time we have. I’d like to think that we are doing some fact finding and determining which places we might like to come back too.
I tried out the free internet service at the station but could only check mail - no blog post unfortunately. It’s proving a bit difficult to get connected at the rate we are moving. Wendy and Ash went off to the shops to find something to eat on the train. The train trip was great and the train wound it’s way along the river bank through Slovenia and then climbed up through the mountains into Austria. Ash managed to call Edith on the mobile (she’s a sister of Imri, a lovely lady he’d met in Glasgow who kindly showed him around the city) and despite the short notice, she agreed to meet us at the station (next to the carved lion statue) and show us a round Vienna for the afternoon on Friday. We had also been in touch with another person, Guenter (who is an acquaintance of Bruce) and we had agreed to meet on Friday evening for dinner. Guenter had also managed to sort out our train ticket reservations to Krakow - a champion!
Arrived in Vienna on time at the huge Süd-bahnhof (railway station). Same old type of place with all sorts hanging around and lots of different languages being spoken. Always tricky to orient yourself when landing in a new place with no familiar surroundings, late at night and with a reference map that makes getting to the accommodation easy and is way too abbreviated. Bumped into some folks who had just done a day trip to Prague on the train, but they couldn’t help. Found an info booth and managed to get hold of a very detailed map and in the end Ash got us oriented. We found our pension (in an older neighbour hood) after about a 30 minute walk and we crashed once again around midnight (don’t know how we manage to keep doing it). Our itinerary sure is hectic, trying to cover so much in the limited time we have. I’d like to think that we are doing some fact finding and determining which places we might like to come back too.
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