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bunrabTomorrow morning at 3:45 a.m. local time we get back on the bus to go to the airport in Wien, so this has been our last day. We did exactlz what we planned to do from the start: found a sidewalk cafe and ate too much pastry. After a couple of hours of that, we went to the Naturhistorichesmuseum for a few hours, then back to the hotel for the group dinner, which was at a cafe called Einstein (www.einstein.at) and we had Wienerschnitzel. I will tell you more about the pastry when we get home and I upload pictures.
It was a scorching hot day for Wien, being all of about 82 F. Everybody sticking to the shady side of the street, and even the locals requesting ice in their drinks.
The price of gas has affected the amount of traffic here - there´s very little, even during what I would think of as rush hour. One can´t say we´re not seeing traffic because we are in a hotel district or tourist district - we are two blocks from city hall, four blocks from Parlaiment and its associated office buildings. Of course there´s public transportation everzwhere, and also CityBike stands everywhere, as well as lockup sites for one´s personal bicycle. And there are more motorczcles and scooters here - though the balance is far more toward motorczcles and less toward scooters than it was in Croatia and Slovenia. And lots of those cute tiny cars, the Smart car and models of Smart that we haven´t seen in the US and other little teeny cars.
We have been pleasantlz surprised at how much Deutsch we remember, and have been using it all day today; generally we have been answered in English, but we were speaking clearlz enough that people understood our questions. Wien is verz handicapped-friendly, with curbcuts everzwhere, lifts everzwhere, cafes quite agreeable about me driving the scoot up to a table. Manz of the curbcuts are for the afore-mentioned omnipresent bicycles, which have their own dedicated bike paths on most streets and through most parks.
I sure will be glad to get back to an English-based keyboard. Though I wish I could stay and see more of this truly beautiful place.
Well, now to pack, and to shower and get dressed and lie down fullz clothed, so that at 3 a.m. I can get up out of bed and need do nothing except stumble me, mz scooter, and suitcase to the elevator, excuse me, the lift. We should arrive at Dulles a little before 1 p.m. Eastern time, and then with our group going through customs and whatnot, and the group bus back to the communitz college and the collection of music there and whatnot, I figure we´ll probablz be home about 5 p.m. Eastern time. Maybe I will be awake, probablz not. So it´ll be Fridaz before you start getting the good posts with lots of pictures.
It was a scorching hot day for Wien, being all of about 82 F. Everybody sticking to the shady side of the street, and even the locals requesting ice in their drinks.
The price of gas has affected the amount of traffic here - there´s very little, even during what I would think of as rush hour. One can´t say we´re not seeing traffic because we are in a hotel district or tourist district - we are two blocks from city hall, four blocks from Parlaiment and its associated office buildings. Of course there´s public transportation everzwhere, and also CityBike stands everywhere, as well as lockup sites for one´s personal bicycle. And there are more motorczcles and scooters here - though the balance is far more toward motorczcles and less toward scooters than it was in Croatia and Slovenia. And lots of those cute tiny cars, the Smart car and models of Smart that we haven´t seen in the US and other little teeny cars.
We have been pleasantlz surprised at how much Deutsch we remember, and have been using it all day today; generally we have been answered in English, but we were speaking clearlz enough that people understood our questions. Wien is verz handicapped-friendly, with curbcuts everzwhere, lifts everzwhere, cafes quite agreeable about me driving the scoot up to a table. Manz of the curbcuts are for the afore-mentioned omnipresent bicycles, which have their own dedicated bike paths on most streets and through most parks.
I sure will be glad to get back to an English-based keyboard. Though I wish I could stay and see more of this truly beautiful place.
Well, now to pack, and to shower and get dressed and lie down fullz clothed, so that at 3 a.m. I can get up out of bed and need do nothing except stumble me, mz scooter, and suitcase to the elevator, excuse me, the lift. We should arrive at Dulles a little before 1 p.m. Eastern time, and then with our group going through customs and whatnot, and the group bus back to the communitz college and the collection of music there and whatnot, I figure we´ll probablz be home about 5 p.m. Eastern time. Maybe I will be awake, probablz not. So it´ll be Fridaz before you start getting the good posts with lots of pictures.
