Last day in Vienna
I'm already home as I'm writing this, I've slept for over 20 hours since our arrival at 2am on Friday night (or morning, depends on how you see it). The long trip home and all the intense adventuring left me completely exhausted! We spent our last day in Austria in the nearby city Baden.
There were barely any people at Hauptbahnhof, there was some kind of holiday on Friday and most of the people had travelled away from the city for the weekend. We wanted to take the S-Bahn (fast train) to Baden, but couldn't figure out how to buy tickets. But that problem got solved quickly; one thing we've learned is that the Austrians are very friendly and helpful, so we asked a woman and she quickly helped us to purchase two tickets from an automat!
Thinking that the trip would take about an hour, we sat down comfortably and took out whatever we use to make the time go by faster. Mom grabbed a sudoku and I digged out paper and pen to draw a bit, but just as I closed my bag we were already almost there - it only took 20 minutes! Taking the S-bahn was comfortable and fast to a good price, so I highly recommend it.
Baden was very pretty! We visited some relatives and took a stroll in the city's park and rosarium. Then we went to a nearby city what's name I can't recall and ate at a japanese restaurant, much to my enjoyment. I'm not kidding when I say that I feasted like a queen there! I was starving and ordered a Bento box with lots of goodies in it; dumplings, sushi, teriyaki chicken with rice, lychees, miso soup - I was so full I could have rolled back to Baden!
When we came back we still had a little time before we needed to go to the Vienna airport, so we walked around in the city centre.
We began our trip home at 16 o'clock and were home 10 hours later, both completely exhausted and fell asleep as soon as our heads touched our pillows!
My experience of Vienna and Baden is positive - I have never been in a city that is so clean and well-kept (Except for Schönbrunn)! Even the subway was clean, they're usually quite disgusting and smell very bad in big cities. And the Austrian people are some of the friendliest I've ever encountered! Even tho our german is far from perfect, they were very friendly and helpful. And another thing I noticed that I want to mention is the calmness. It may has to do with that we visited Vienna in the middle of August, but Vienna didn't have the stressful city-buzz with honking cars, stau, people running at the subways. I find it interesting that a central european city with over 1,7 million inhibitors can seem much more calmer that Stockholm, for an example, which has only 400 000 less inhibitors.
Enough babbling! Now I'll have to concentrate on school and such before I'll make my next trip in October - I'm re-visiting Budapest for a few days!
There were barely any people at Hauptbahnhof, there was some kind of holiday on Friday and most of the people had travelled away from the city for the weekend. We wanted to take the S-Bahn (fast train) to Baden, but couldn't figure out how to buy tickets. But that problem got solved quickly; one thing we've learned is that the Austrians are very friendly and helpful, so we asked a woman and she quickly helped us to purchase two tickets from an automat!
Thinking that the trip would take about an hour, we sat down comfortably and took out whatever we use to make the time go by faster. Mom grabbed a sudoku and I digged out paper and pen to draw a bit, but just as I closed my bag we were already almost there - it only took 20 minutes! Taking the S-bahn was comfortable and fast to a good price, so I highly recommend it.
Baden was very pretty! We visited some relatives and took a stroll in the city's park and rosarium. Then we went to a nearby city what's name I can't recall and ate at a japanese restaurant, much to my enjoyment. I'm not kidding when I say that I feasted like a queen there! I was starving and ordered a Bento box with lots of goodies in it; dumplings, sushi, teriyaki chicken with rice, lychees, miso soup - I was so full I could have rolled back to Baden!
When we came back we still had a little time before we needed to go to the Vienna airport, so we walked around in the city centre.
We began our trip home at 16 o'clock and were home 10 hours later, both completely exhausted and fell asleep as soon as our heads touched our pillows!
My experience of Vienna and Baden is positive - I have never been in a city that is so clean and well-kept (Except for Schönbrunn)! Even the subway was clean, they're usually quite disgusting and smell very bad in big cities. And the Austrian people are some of the friendliest I've ever encountered! Even tho our german is far from perfect, they were very friendly and helpful. And another thing I noticed that I want to mention is the calmness. It may has to do with that we visited Vienna in the middle of August, but Vienna didn't have the stressful city-buzz with honking cars, stau, people running at the subways. I find it interesting that a central european city with over 1,7 million inhibitors can seem much more calmer that Stockholm, for an example, which has only 400 000 less inhibitors.
Enough babbling! Now I'll have to concentrate on school and such before I'll make my next trip in October - I'm re-visiting Budapest for a few days!
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