Bratislava & Vienna
The weather´s about to change...
07.08.2007 - 07.08.2007
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Europe: August 2007
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Wow, Mom - the computer skills are improving! Pretty soon your entries are going to be longer than mine!! Here´s the church I should have downloaded earlier.
It´s only 4:00 here, but I´m taking a break before we go off into the countryside to a restaurant that includes "Austrian merrymaking."
A little more about Vienna. There are very few cars, considering the size of the city. The transit system was extremely well thought out, and most people take transit. They have "city bikes" (not that I´ve used them) around like shopping carts...you put in your coin and ride away on the bike. Lots of younger people use them.
This morning we went off to Bratislava, which was verz (this "z" where the "y" should be is verz annozing! Now I know how Bill felt when I switched his M and N keys!) interesting. They are much more impoverished, but the architecture is still superb. There are dilapidated buildings, interspersed amongst the buildings in the old city; they are homes that, after the war, no one has reclaimed. They are still waiting a certain amount of time before the state declares them theirs. St. Martin´s church and the city´s castle are picturesque. I tried out my Slovak on the lady that we had to pay to use the "water closet" - dyun-kyu-yen - and she looked at me with a puzzled look. I repeated it, and she finallz understood and corrected my pronunciation... dyun-KU-yen.
One interesting note...we passed through a little town called Neudorf on the way to the Slovak republic. I tried to take a picture of the town´s name on the way back, but I only got the top part of the sign. I did get a little arrow sign in the previous town, though, pointing the way to Neudorf. I think that Neudorf Saskatchewan is bigger than this Neudorf in Austria. I believe there is another Neudorf closer to Salzburg, though.
Anyway, I should be going. Speaking of Salzburg, that´s where we head tomorrow. I don´t know if I´m going to have as frequent access as here to the internet, so I don´t know when I´m going to update this next.
Have fun, everyone! Miss you! (Oh...I think now it´s thundering!)
Trace
Posted by tracebc 07.08.2007 6:55 AM Archived in Austria
Sure have been enjoying hearing of your very interesting travels!! Today Dad and I never went out anywhere-- it's still raining, not much but enough to keep the ground wet. Dad cut the grass yesterday--so he was glad he did it before the rains came.
I have already cut my hair but haven't blowdried it yet, think it might be a bit short! Hope I can use the curling iron on it.
Hope the weather is okay for your Danube cruise and when you go to the Parish Church in Mondsee where the wedding scenes for the Sound of Music were filmed---How do you solve a problem like Maria la la la la la la la. Boy would I be singing that song tomorrow!!!! Think I will anyway!!!
07.08.2007 by bingolady