Vienna Day 1
Yeah, even though I took the fastest train possible, it took me 7 hours to get to Vienna from Feldkirch. We also had some delay there, so it was almost 10, 10.30 pm when arrived in Vienna. I was going to stay with a married couple there: Sonja, André Koschina. I didn’t have any problems at all to find their apartment. Before I left for this trip, they described the way quite well, so although I am very lousy with finding directions, I had no problems at all. When I arrived there, I found this little note, saying that they are 10 minutes away and if I call them they will be right back. And I did. (:
5 minutes later, they welcomed me with big smiles. And 2nd thing they did was to give me a spare key to the flat. I was like “WoW, thanks”. (: I wasn’t expecting that. Later, after we went in, they showed me a couch, and I even had a room of my own. I could eat & drink whatever I want, have some towels and so on… That was like the heaven part of my trip!
I thanked them a lot. I asked them for some tips about Vienna. I left Furtwangen, right after my exams are finished, so I didn’t have any time to look for information about my trip at all. They gave me a town map and told where to go and what to do. So, I had some ideas about what I was going to do the next day.
I got a 24-hours ticket and visited the Donau-City first and then the river Donau of course. They had some artificial beaches there and some pubish things around. They looked kind of cool. I am not sure, but if they also do have the Red-Bull Airrace, it would be the perfect place for it. And how do I know it? Because I’ve already been to one, in Istanbul…
Later, I got to the city center, maybe not the city center, but obviously the touristic center. The square around St. Stephan’s Cathedral. Lots of tourists there… I walked around, saw some nice buildings and gates. That city reminded me very much of Rome, you just walk around and just see historical, gorgeous buildings.
I couldn’t get it, but it was really really hot there, almost about 37, 38 degree Celcius. So I just went back to the flat to rest for a couple of hours. There I called Sonja and we made an appointment for that evening to meet again in the flat.
After I got back to normal again, I went out again. This time to visit the famous cemetary. It was/is famous because, it is so huge. Now, if I am not wrong, 1.5 million people are laying there, and before that number was about 3 million, during the time that Hungary and Austria were united. You know I’ve been blabbering about my lack of sense of direction and a cemetary was the perfect cure to that. :p I of course got lost. It is a huge cemetary with almost no signs. Well, sorry, actually there are signs everywhere but none of them shows the way out. That was my problem, first I walked around 30 minutes, I’ve seen some interesting tomb stones and I made pictures of those. One of the most interesting part of this cemetary is, there were 3 different parts for 3 different religion. That I find really interesting. I wanted to see at least some small parts of these 3, but I didn’t have the time. Let me put it this way. This cemetary is so huge that it has lots of bus stops in it. And you always see cars passing by. It is almost impossible to walk all the way to the other side. And and because of the unsufficient number of signs, I got lost. It took me again about 30 minutes to find a sign that shows the way out. Then I could take the tram and go all the way back to the flat.
Sonja, André and one of their friends were already there. We talked for a little while and then went out again. André was driving us with his jeep. Man, that was comfort. He took us to a really nice hill with a view of the Donau. We sat down at a restaurant there. André even said that it would be on him, thank you one more time. I ate a Wiener Tafelspitz, and I tried the sparkling Austrian wine, it was all delicious. Hmmm…
Then we went to a bar, there I tried a special Austrian beer, which was also cool. I was already tired when we got back to the flat. We again had some nice chat about the world, this time. (: I took a shower and directly went to bed, pardon me, couch.
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Dear Buyruk,
After a while I stepped in to your homepage and was nice to read about this times. I really liked to remember to this hot summer. Was so nice to have you as a guest. Hope you also had a lot of nice travel experiences elsewhere and your studies went well.
yours,
sonja