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So I´m here, after spending half the train trip iPodless since German Steve McQueen just had to go and reserve the window seat so I couldn´t get to the outlet.
I´m liking this place about as much as Austria in terms of transportation, everything is pretty clear cut, except spending about 10 minutes learning enough german to buy a 3 day metro pass. The Hostel is nice, the lockers are huge and free, they have their own laundromat, which I´m currently using, and thankfully in Salzburg I learned how to operate their wacky washers, so it was all simple and easy to do. Once laundry is done and dry I think I´ll shower and go down to the Olympia Park and see if I can´t get in on some of this World Cup action. Maybe get some paraphernalia and beer. Of course tickets to get inside are probably insanely expensive if they´re available at all, but perhaps there´s somewhere nearby televising it, which seems sort of weird and dumb to watch it on TV since the action is all RIGHT HERE, but I have a price limit, I would´ve liked to have tried some of the whack rides in the amusement park that the Ferris Wheel was a part of in Vienna, but they wanted E100 for a pass to everything, and I just can´t justify that.
It´s getting easier to accustom myself to new cities as they all operate in the same kind of way here, which is sort of unfortunate since I´m almost done. I suppose I had to get the rough spots out of the way at some point, I had some notion that this trip would be partially to learn how to travel properly going into it, though I definitely didn´t realize how miserable some parts would be. Overall I´d say mission accomplished.
I met some american guys in the Vienna Hostel last night who are over here for 3 months, this seems a little bit weird to me, since at no point in my life have I had the money or time available to afford that sort of thing, I neglected to ask what it is they do or did for work, they talked about having a budget though, so I imagine they´re not like CEOs on siesta or anything.
One of them was talking about participating in a charity hike through the Grand Canyon after he got back, I have a hunch HE might be filthy rich.
I chatted with a young Turkish girl there too, she asked about my family and what I did and how old I was and was totally scandalized when I said I hadn´t been and didn´t plan on going to Turkey this trip. She was cute and nice and also 14. 10 more years, mmmmhmm.
She and all her classmates were visiting the IAEA just like the guys I met on the train to Salzburg, apparently field trips there are a pretty common thing in school here in Europe. At least in the neighboring countries, I don´t know if people go from say, France down to Vienna to check it out. It´s nice to know that somebody is educating themselves on Nuclear energy instead of just threatening to drop it on other people.
The metro lines run every 4 minutes in Vienna, but here they´re spaced out to about 10, I had laughed at the people riding them in the first couple of cities, running from place to place, because I thought what the hell, wait 5 minutes and there´ll be another one. Strangely, the more you travel on them the more it makes you impatient, and I don´t know why that is. Now I get there and I´m like ´Fuck, two minutes until the next train!? Bullshit!´.
People here are a little less up on the English tip, but they´re still quite helpful. I´ve decided this is my last stop, here for two days and then a mad dash through Koln to Brussels and stay the night there before I jet off on the 30th.
I´ve missed a lot of touristy stuff, like some armour museum in Vienna which looked pretty cool from the pictures I saw on the americans´ camera, but I´ve seen medieval armour before, not that stuff in particular, but I think I´m happier without being subjected to it again. Doesn´t make for much to bring back to ya´ll in the way of pictures, but I´m not gonna make myself miserable bending over backwards to make everyone else happy, save up some money and come yourself if you wanna see it so bad, y´know?
It´s been a lot of fun the past two days, I´m definitely going to miss it.
Laundry is calling my name, ´Scheißesauganleger, Scheißesauganleger!´ .. Laundry speaks german here, FYI.
Love,
Clark
I´m liking this place about as much as Austria in terms of transportation, everything is pretty clear cut, except spending about 10 minutes learning enough german to buy a 3 day metro pass. The Hostel is nice, the lockers are huge and free, they have their own laundromat, which I´m currently using, and thankfully in Salzburg I learned how to operate their wacky washers, so it was all simple and easy to do. Once laundry is done and dry I think I´ll shower and go down to the Olympia Park and see if I can´t get in on some of this World Cup action. Maybe get some paraphernalia and beer. Of course tickets to get inside are probably insanely expensive if they´re available at all, but perhaps there´s somewhere nearby televising it, which seems sort of weird and dumb to watch it on TV since the action is all RIGHT HERE, but I have a price limit, I would´ve liked to have tried some of the whack rides in the amusement park that the Ferris Wheel was a part of in Vienna, but they wanted E100 for a pass to everything, and I just can´t justify that.
It´s getting easier to accustom myself to new cities as they all operate in the same kind of way here, which is sort of unfortunate since I´m almost done. I suppose I had to get the rough spots out of the way at some point, I had some notion that this trip would be partially to learn how to travel properly going into it, though I definitely didn´t realize how miserable some parts would be. Overall I´d say mission accomplished.
I met some american guys in the Vienna Hostel last night who are over here for 3 months, this seems a little bit weird to me, since at no point in my life have I had the money or time available to afford that sort of thing, I neglected to ask what it is they do or did for work, they talked about having a budget though, so I imagine they´re not like CEOs on siesta or anything.
One of them was talking about participating in a charity hike through the Grand Canyon after he got back, I have a hunch HE might be filthy rich.
I chatted with a young Turkish girl there too, she asked about my family and what I did and how old I was and was totally scandalized when I said I hadn´t been and didn´t plan on going to Turkey this trip. She was cute and nice and also 14. 10 more years, mmmmhmm.
She and all her classmates were visiting the IAEA just like the guys I met on the train to Salzburg, apparently field trips there are a pretty common thing in school here in Europe. At least in the neighboring countries, I don´t know if people go from say, France down to Vienna to check it out. It´s nice to know that somebody is educating themselves on Nuclear energy instead of just threatening to drop it on other people.
The metro lines run every 4 minutes in Vienna, but here they´re spaced out to about 10, I had laughed at the people riding them in the first couple of cities, running from place to place, because I thought what the hell, wait 5 minutes and there´ll be another one. Strangely, the more you travel on them the more it makes you impatient, and I don´t know why that is. Now I get there and I´m like ´Fuck, two minutes until the next train!? Bullshit!´.
People here are a little less up on the English tip, but they´re still quite helpful. I´ve decided this is my last stop, here for two days and then a mad dash through Koln to Brussels and stay the night there before I jet off on the 30th.
I´ve missed a lot of touristy stuff, like some armour museum in Vienna which looked pretty cool from the pictures I saw on the americans´ camera, but I´ve seen medieval armour before, not that stuff in particular, but I think I´m happier without being subjected to it again. Doesn´t make for much to bring back to ya´ll in the way of pictures, but I´m not gonna make myself miserable bending over backwards to make everyone else happy, save up some money and come yourself if you wanna see it so bad, y´know?
It´s been a lot of fun the past two days, I´m definitely going to miss it.
Laundry is calling my name, ´Scheißesauganleger, Scheißesauganleger!´ .. Laundry speaks german here, FYI.
Love,
Clark