Return of the Aussies

Old School

Imagine a day with great weather where you walk around eating delicious food and drinking with beautiful girls in a great city and that pretty much describes my day exactly. I met back up with Jill and Hayley(The Aussies) in Vienna and we headed out to explore the city.

I started the day with some yogurt and what I thought was a cinnamon roll but turned out to be something that tasted nothing like a cinnamon role, because it wasn’t a cinnamon roll but I have no idea what it actually was. Then we walked to the Christmas markets behind the Rathaus (that is what they call the mayor’s office in German), a bunch of temporary wooden structures selling drinks and food. I found these drinks that come in plastic bottles that I used to drink when I was a kid and bought one, it really took me back and I was quite giddy. I got some more delicious chestnuts, shared a chocolate covered apple, a cinnamon sugar waffle and had a glass of gluhwein (delicious warm spiced wine). We sat on a bench to enjoy the beautiful weather and drink our gluhwein and sat across from an elderly woman who was wearing a skirt. I don’t know if it was the gluhwein she was drinking but the longer we sat there the less modest she became.

From there we headed to St Stephan’s Cathedral and on the way I ate a delicious kebob. Kebob stands are everywhere in Europe, I wonder if I would ever get tired of eating them, they are still amazing after all the time I have spent in Europe. The kebob was salty and I needed something sweet and a bathroom break so we stopped in at McDonalds and I bought a caramel sundae.

While walking I saw a lady heading in the opposite direction of me and suddenly she started to limp for a couple of steps and then stopped and turned around. The woman had stepped out of one of her high heeled shoes but didn’t stop for several steps. I couldn’t believe that it had taken her so long to realize she was only wearing one shoe and I burst into laughter and had to walk away to avoid laughing in her face.
After the cathedral we headed towards the ferris wheel, that is the oldest in all of Europe and were thinking of going up in it until we saw the price €8.50 ($12.62 USD). The ferris wheel is on a type of permanent fair ground with lots of overpriced rides and places selling food. I was able to abstain from purchasing any food there but I did grab a beer for the road. In most parts of Europe you are allowed to pretty much drink beer anywhere that you want, on the street, in the train station, or wherever else your heart desires.

With a drink in hand we headed to the Muesum Quarter which is a collection of buildings that house a lot of museums. Playstation had rented out a space at the Muesum Quarter and made all of their new big titled video games available to play and also had a hot tub with bikini clad girls setup to entice people (guys) to play their games. We stood around watching the people and drank some more gluhwein to stay warm.

On the way back to the Hostel we bought some food for dinner and had toast with eggs, cheese and tomatoes. I also ate some chicken and chili ramen to supplement. We ended the evening with some laughs and a few more drinks.

We basically did nothing today besides eat and drink, it was amazing!

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