Thursday, August 30, 2007

We are idiots...but lucky ones

Ok, so the post about the rude people on the train station totally came back to bite us in the butt.
Our suspicions became true when our tickets were controlled and she looked down at our 14 Euro tickets and was like: And where are your tickets?
Well, that was all we had. It seemed like we had purchased the world's most expensive seat reservations. Luckily we didn't get kicked off but she sold us our tickets on the train. Again I can only advise people to bring some emergency cash - you never know when you're going to need it!
When we got to the border the czech train personnel was switched for Austrian, another ticket controller came around and I realized the czech lady had only sold us tickets to the border.
Why oh why did I not look on it earlier??? Ok, so same scenario again, the guy looks at our 14 Euro ticket, and at the one we just bought before on the train, probably wonders if we're really this stupid...and says he'll be back to charge us the rest of the money.
Well, he never came back. We were were lucky after all and the train ride cost us only 22 Euro.
When we arrived in Vienna we encountered rain for the first time on our trip.
But that didn't stop a drugged up Lex and myself to walk around and take it all in.
We are staying right in the middle of it all, a 2 minute walk to the Stephansdom. It's absolutely beautiful.
Later we found a supermarket and brought home a nice bottle of Sekt and enjoyed that in our Pension. We turned on the TV and...I kid you not there was a David Hasselhof block going. Knight Rider and then Baywatch. We had a great laugh and Lex even took a picture to prove it.
For dinner we found a 100 year old Vienna Coffeehouse all decked out in 50s style furniture and Lex got to eat his Wiener Schnitzel.

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