Wine growing in Wachau region, Vienna, Austria Isn't it beautiful?
Day 162
Aww...we're leaving Austria tomorrow....
Such a beautiful place..and we loved having our apartment so we could cook up a storm (had a huge vege soup for 2 days) and loved everything about it.
For my birthday we went to the Wachau Region which was so lovely..and cruised on the blue Danube...ended up at Melk for lunch and looked through the Benedictine Abbey..got a bit waylaid on the way home when the freeway got shut due to an accident and we literally stopped for an hour and a half! Which meant we didn't have time to get back to our hotel in Vienna and get changed for the concert..aww.
The Mozart and Strauss concert was brilliant..so comical too..a real act. The musicians were modern and exciting!
It wasn't just the standard (sometimes boring) classical music..it was everything..an act with singers, musicians, dancers and plays and it was just great!!! The musicians played mostly Strauss and Mozart..but also Beethoven and Hayden as well.
The Blue Danube (Strauss) was my favourite...with the couple dancing the waltz...So beautiful...The whole concert was great...although it was hot..and at the same time it was thundering! There was lots of humour in the night as well..
It was so funny after when the people that were going to dinner got herded up ready to go..all the muscians and dancers were dressed in their normal gear and scambled to get outside like the rest of us!! I wonder if that's what Mozart and Strauss did in their day as well??? Weird to think hey...
The dinner after the concert was not so good! It ended up being really late...and we were tired...and in our clothes we'd been in since very early...in a place we didnt know because they led us from the concert to this remote restaurant (it was a dinner concert ticket) and so at midnight..we were eating dinner!
Then we had to get home.
And because we"d purchased a train, bus, ferry ticket all in one for 72 hours, we wanted to use that instead of using taxis (have only caught TWO taxis in our whole trip, once in Cape Town and once in Dublin!!)and so it became quite taxing. So to speak.
Catching trains at 1am in Vienna is not that much fun......there are some whacko's out and about that's for sure. But unlike when we arrived, because we knew better by now, we didn't have to pass the red light district to get to the hotel. We caught the metro train...then a tram. So it was better! (Looking on the positive side!)
It was LATE! By the time we got to bed...
Really late..later than i thought. Was about 2ish...geepers..and we had to get up early to go to Krakow in the morning!!!
But we knew we could sleep on the train so that was ok.
Still, it was great having my birthday in Vienna. Greg had his in Paris. I think the both of us will always remember them!
Was so weird though...cos i got a heap of birthday messages at about 6 - 7pm (Our time. Euro time) which meant it was about midnight in Perth......and i thought that didn't seem right! Something really happened with the mobile that day.....i also got messages that id already got...strange.
Was good tho..cos i ended up getting messages on my phone from everyone all day!! haha
So....off to Crakow...
