Quick update from Austria!
We arrived last night at around supper, and managed to find our way easily to the Wombats hostel where we're spending three nights. We met a girl about our age from Washington, DC in our cabin who happens to be living in Vienna for the time. She gave us directions to our hostel and also dropped a really big tip for us: skip out on the boat trip we were planning on taking, and instead get ourselves up to the Wassau valley to the wineries and some spectacular views of the Danube.
Thus was our day: we trained to Krems, a wee town, and walked along the Danube river to some smaller towns up the way in the sunny, warm wine region a few hours from Vienna.
Hiked up a mountain, some some lizards sunning on a rock face, walked through ruins, and finally ended the day drinking some local wine in a vineyard...on a picnic table in the sun.
I am cooked red hot. My poor Scottish skin had no idea what hit it.
Sun!
Since we're so exhausted, we're taking an easy night in the hostel bar. Tomorrow we're hitting up the Vienna city proper for all the 'cultural' Mozart-ish stuff one is supposed to do here. But most likely we'll end up in a beer garden again. Ah well.
Salut,
B.
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