Lets park ourselves in a park

Hello from Prague!! This city is gorgeous but you all don't get to hear about it until I leave. For now, I will tell the story of Vienna.

Chels and I managed to get a relatively cheap hostel just outside the city and decided to stay for 3 nights. We had no idea what Vienna was like accept that a load of people had told us it was pretty. If you remember, we took the overnight train from Munich and arrived at 6am. I passed out on the train and managed to get a good five hours but Chelsea barely slept a wink. We stepped off the train and were walking down the stairs when, what do you know!, I skip the last step and twist my foot. If any of you read my Rome blog, you know that I had an injured foot for about a month while there. Well tripping down these stairs, I reinjured it. I knew it wasn't broken because I am pretty clumsy and know what a broken bone feels like. I was hobbling around for the rest of the day, in a lot of pain.

We walked the 500 meters to our hostel and were greeting by the most unenthusiatic receptionist I've ever seen. She talked in a whisper so we couldn't understand what she was saying and she didn't smile once. Talk about a change from The Tent. We also wanted to smack her when she told us that we couldn't get a room key until 3pm. 3pm! It was 6am at this point! SO we helped ourselves to the free breakfast, dropped our stuff off in the luggage room and got on the tram to find a park.

We found Stadtspark pretty quickly and laid our blankets out for a nap. I had been sleeping soundly for an hour when Chelsea shakes me awake: "Ash! That man just took that ladies purse! He just stole her purse." I was about to jump up to run after him when reason hit me, what if this guy had a knife or worse. It was the lady's fault that she left her bag unattended, her boyfriend could chase the guy. So we alerted him and he chased after the thief. He got the purse back but I think it was a wakeup call for the girl. Chelsea was shocked and shaken up. It was a bit of a wake up call for her as well. I just thought it was really cool. Nothing bad had happened and we got to witness a crime. Cool! We stayed awake and watched the guys in action. There were three of them and they would gather and talk and then break up and roam the park. I don't think they got anyone else. We fell back asleep. As we were leaving the park, we saw one of the guys re-enter wearing different clothes! He didn't want us to recognize him.

Great first impression of Vienna.

We were exhausted and it was only 1pm. We got some groceries and took them back to the hostel only to realize that all they had int he "kitchen" was a microwave and fridge. No cutlery, plates, or even a freezer. We wanted to kill these people. We managed to scrounge a meal and were finally ready to check in. We slept the rest of the afternoon away.

The next two days were spent lying in parks and people watching. Walking to and from the parks was a lesson in Classical architecture. Indeed, the city is full of gorgeous buildings. Unfortunately, unless you're into classical music, art, and museums, there's nothing to do. Some highlights of our trip in Vienna: seeing Bruno (the new version of Borat) in English!, eating traditional Viennese cuisine (schnitzel and fries. could not be more artery clogging), and having a drink down by the river.

Honestly, it was a beautiful place but its not a place for budget travelers. Our hostel was crap and we don't like museums. Haha. Youi can tell from the length of this blog that there wasn't much going on. But now we're in Prague and it makes up for the bore that was Vienna.

Hope you're all happy and healthy,
Ash

ps. Apparently the nightlife in Vienna is incredible but we didn't have the money to get out at night.