Praha: Day 4 / Wien: Day 1

(Monkey = direct translation of snot in Portuguese slang apparently)

This morning it was time to say bye to Praha (sad) and Hostel Centrum II (happy). At the ungodly hour of 6am we were up and by 7 we were out of the hostel eating our pre-bought chocolate croissants. Mmm...pre packaged breakfast!

After double-passport control (no Schenegen agreement yet for CZ), we arrived in Wien (Vienna) on time.

Wien is beautiful - one of the many European cities with a built-in ring road (was the city wall - clever forward thinking huh?!), trams and cycleways. And to make it even better, they call the ringroad a 'gürtel' (belt). So Katherine, it was useful!!

Almost on arrival Wien showed its nice side, with the hostel being clean, central, and just light years ahead of Centrum. We even received a guided tour on the tram by a very nice elderly lady! Talk about lucky! Oh, and the tram stop at Volkstheater has amazing kebab sandwiches! Ohhh...soo good

By the time we had gotten over everything being more expensive but just nicer than in Praha it was getting quite late and so we ended up at Hundertwasser House (Officially: the Residential Building of the City Vienna). This place is fascinating. The architect, Hundertwasser detests straight lines, and so the entire hosue is devoid of any. This includes the walls and floors, none of which are straight.

We had dinner at a fairly ordinary Chinese restaurant near our hostel. Nice duck though, in 'special sauce' (read: soy and oyster).

After cards with our room-mate Victor (from Madrid), Bec opened her luggage (no mean feat given how tightly we packed it) and a small Czech refugee escaped... nah seriously, not quite that bad, but we worked out why it was so packed - Bec has bought tshirts aplenty during her travels! She'd just forgotten about them because they were so far down in her pack.