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After the weekend in Barcelona with my friends who visited, I went to visit Steph in Vienna! I am aware that I went about two weeks ago and it´s been awhile since my last entry, so I have some catching up to do. But this entry is about Austria only, so I´ll update on life back in España later. It was my first Ryanair experience, which (for advice to others who might be flying Ryanair in the near future) was interesting, to say the least. To be fair, my flight was fine and I felt safe an...

I ate a bratwurst the size of my arm! It was massive and served in a baguette that was put on a big metal pole to make a hole in it, ketchup was squirted in and then the sausage put in then handed over. Tasted great! But too much for me to finish. Then, I ate a pretzel the size of my head. Carrie paradise! (¾ of my blood's German and Germany shares a lot of food with Austria) There are little bars all over too selling beer, not that I like Beer, the one thing I cant stand, so y...

The hills are alive, with the sound of music.

Today was our anniversary and what better place to spend it than in the romantic city of Salzburg. We woke up to clear blue skies and headed out with another busy schedule of sightseeing. Having been travelling for so long; days of the week have ceased to mean anything to us but of course the rest of the world has not forgotten. The quiet empty streets of yesterday had been invaded by hordes of weekend tourists. We decided to head up the funicular railway to the cliff top fortress. Even thoug...

After a semester studying abroad, I went around a few countries, where I had contacts to stay with for free. It was a great month and a half and I went to places I hadn't heard of before my visits.

A long travel day back on the train.  We woke  up early to head back to Vienna, where we'd be spending one night one our way back to London.  The trip went well.  When we reached Vienna, it was really rainy.  I was tired, and temped to just hide in the hotel, but Steven really pushed to walk around the city one more time, and I'll always be so glad that he did; I'll always remember that final night of Vienna glowing, all rain misty, and it was really worth doing.

Some random pics from my random travels

We were tired of driving, but still had a long way to go to our next destination. I saw a road sign for Melk, and I'd heard that the Melk Abbey was amazing, so we decided to go check it out. This is what's nice about a flexible itinerary. Melk turned out to be a wonderful place.

This is about a trip I took with my Dad and my brother. Then I was ditched my my dad and brother. Sorry if my tenses are all confused I wrote some of the blogs in the present then later, at home, updated them in past tense... sorry.

Goodbye Salzburg. Hello Hallstatt,We are off to Hallstatt this morning; sitting here at the train station writing this e-mail right now; listening to the recorded messages on the PA system in German. We have some time to kill so I thought I would get in an update on how things are going over here.Last night we went to see the Salzburg Red Bulls play, they won 3-0. The match was great; the fans are so into their football over here. The have a section for the visiting team’s fans and it is al...

Another tour, this one to the South Woods, which were beautiful. We saw this Convent which was a former Hunting Lodge of Crown Prince Rudolph, who committed suicide after shooting his 17 yr old mistress, who was a baroness.  He was married to A Princess with children.  The family gave the lodge to the Church so Rudolph could be buried with his Royal Family.  Then onto an Abbey and Tomb of the Babenberg Dynasty (1650’s).  Part of the Church was built in the 1100’s which...

Bueno pues pienso pasar  por Austria...tambien llegaré por tren y de aquí partiré hacia Praga República Checa por tren. Se hacen 4 horas de camino. La página de ferrocarriles de Austria ÖBB es un desmadre y para reservar solo lo puedes hacer en alemán...no hay opción de hacerlo en inglés cuesta 50 euros ir de Viena a Praga.

Kufstein is located in Tirol, Austria and very romantic, friendly and lively. Finkenstein is near the Faaker See in Kärnten. And my little funky home town.

Lara and Steph's Great Big Fantastic Adventure!!!! A road trip aroud the UK and Busabout through Europe!

We weren't really in Innsbruck, but it was the closest city.  Anyway, we stopped in Austria when I saw a Rodelbahn.  I'd been on a few of these before, so I wanted everyone else to try.  Most of the people in the world can operate these things without any problems.  Apparently, I am not most people.  You can see the picture.  A quick stop turned into a 4 hour doctor visit.  I have every intention of getting on the next Rodelbahn I find.  ...