Servus!
Through Bavarian lands to Austria, more specifically Vienna! I'm told that Austria has given us such unknowns as Mozart (he made some music apparently), Beethoven (he also wrote music and I think he was a dog), Sigmund Freud (sounds like SUCH a superego), Einstein (a hair stylist), Arnold Schwarzenegger (a Greek Olympian) and Adolf Hitler (who I am told had a real way with making words beautiful). I find that latter story hard to believe when the language just sounds like a string of curse words.
In the interests of cultural learning, I'll be putting the Austro-German translations of key words in this blog in brackets. You may learn a thing or two. Whoever said reading a blog wasn't educational.
The weather (wetter) has been wetter here (hier), but there is some more sun (sonne) too finally. All and all (alle und alle) it's been pretty good (gute), I am in a T-shirt so that's always a positive sign.
A few people mentioned that Vienna wasn't really that cool (kool) a place to go, but I beg to differ. Assuming your camera (kamera) doesn't get stolen or you don't wake up in a water fountain (wasserbad) it's really a very nice and vibrant place. It is a little pricey compared to Czech Republic where beer was cheaper than water, but the wallet is doing OK (OK). I am also pleasantly surprised to find how many awesome buildings and churches there are here, having been led to believe it was bombed to the shit house (scheisse hut) in world war 2.
Vienna (Wien) has a lot of parks too in which Vienese people can walk their government issued sausage dogs (wienderhunde). The fresh air of a park is a welcome break from the hustle and bustle of city streets, it is especially a welcome break from being forced to sit in a smoking cabin on the train here for six hours; a cruel and unusual form of torture.
Through Bavarian lands to Austria, more specifically Vienna! I'm told that Austria has given us such unknowns as Mozart (he made some music apparently), Beethoven (he also wrote music and I think he was a dog), Sigmund Freud (sounds like SUCH a superego), Einstein (a hair stylist), Arnold Schwarzenegger (a Greek Olympian) and Adolf Hitler (who I am told had a real way with making words beautiful). I find that latter story hard to believe when the language just sounds like a string of curse words.
In the interests of cultural learning, I'll be putting the Austro-German translations of key words in this blog in brackets. You may learn a thing or two. Whoever said reading a blog wasn't educational.
The weather (wetter) has been wetter here (hier), but there is some more sun (sonne) too finally. All and all (alle und alle) it's been pretty good (gute), I am in a T-shirt so that's always a positive sign.
A few people mentioned that Vienna wasn't really that cool (kool) a place to go, but I beg to differ. Assuming your camera (kamera) doesn't get stolen or you don't wake up in a water fountain (wasserbad) it's really a very nice and vibrant place. It is a little pricey compared to Czech Republic where beer was cheaper than water, but the wallet is doing OK (OK). I am also pleasantly surprised to find how many awesome buildings and churches there are here, having been led to believe it was bombed to the shit house (scheisse hut) in world war 2.
Vienna (Wien) has a lot of parks too in which Vienese people can walk their government issued sausage dogs (wienderhunde). The fresh air of a park is a welcome break from the hustle and bustle of city streets, it is especially a welcome break from being forced to sit in a smoking cabin on the train here for six hours; a cruel and unusual form of torture.
Unfortunately the parks are now bereft of swan based life forms ever since Austria joined the EU and opened their borders. It was at this point that gypsies poured in and quickly capitalised on the big, fat, tender, succulent ground based bird life that had not learned to get the hell away from them as had their feathery foes in other heavily gypsied countries. If you have never met a gypsy before, come to continental Europe; they are everywhere and after several discussions with them it has become apparent that the vast majority, if not all, of them require life saving operations. One Euro will make or break said operation ... your Euro. This operation must be performed tomorrow. Their lives are therefore always in tourists hands.
Meat dishes are awesome here, you just want more, more, more! And by golly you'll get it. You'll have dreams about it, nightmares about it, you'll learn to become one with it, you'll be comforted by it, you'll be angered by it, you'll be loved by it. Meat is a stalwart companion in central Europe that will never leave you behind. It will also never leave your behind sometimes; your digestive systems dies a little every day here. Bring prunes, lots of prunes.
Next up, Slovenia. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and remember some die's der's and das's.
Meat dishes are awesome here, you just want more, more, more! And by golly you'll get it. You'll have dreams about it, nightmares about it, you'll learn to become one with it, you'll be comforted by it, you'll be angered by it, you'll be loved by it. Meat is a stalwart companion in central Europe that will never leave you behind. It will also never leave your behind sometimes; your digestive systems dies a little every day here. Bring prunes, lots of prunes.
Next up, Slovenia. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go and remember some die's der's and das's.
1 comment:
I notice no pictures have been posted from Vienna... Why is that? Could it be your camera has been STOLEN! It happens... You probably didn't even notice - damn Gypsies!
Congratulations on the anniversary, but imagine how much awesomer it could of been if you crazy kids had capped off the evening with a relaxing nap in a fountain... Oooh yeah....
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