Europe Trip: Day 11, May 31st

After another late night at Robert's, we decided to sleep in. I woke up an hour or so before he did, got ready and packed up my stuff. We left his place by about 11:30am or so in order to get a traditional Bavarian breakfast, which turned out to be these white sausages with a big pretzel. They were actually quite good, maybe in some ways like Norwegian hotdogs I've ate at Grandma Anna's, but with no spices at all.

We relaxed there for a while, and he offered to walk me over to the train station. I got a last look at downtown Munich, and made it to Hauptbahnhof (central station) with 10-15 minutes to spare.

Nobody sat in the seat next to me, and it was a quiet ride all the way to Vienna. The Austrian countryside was quite beautiful, especially near Salzburg. The view as we made our way to the Hbf train station in Salzburg (one of the stops) was very picturesque and made me consider visiting it someday.

I met my host, Julius, at the U-bahn stop right near his place. Then we walked to his apartment and I was able to drop off my stuff. He then offered to show me around downtown and give me a sort of mini tour to get my bearings and see a bit of what Vienna has to offer. So we walked all around, seeing some of the key places, and went on quite the search for a restaurant. Since it was Sunday, many places were closed, and it took us like half an hour of searching just to find out that his favorite Austrian restaurant was closed! So he called his dad and we found a Greek restaurant to eat at, both ordering Giros.

Since Monday was a day off for everyone in Austria, Julius had one of his friends, Marcus, come over. We watched the Matrix on TV, which was in German -- hilarious, by the way, Morpheus loses all of his bravado in the dubbing.

Then after much coaxing, I finally gave in to peer pressure and agreed to go downtown with them to this electro club. There was a famous British DJ who was there. Unfortunately this meant that the cover, which was usually 10 euros, went up to 20 euros! I must admit, though, that it was quite an interesting experience. The DJ played drum-bass and it was well worth it.

We left the club at about 5:30am, and it was already light in Vienna, grabbing a hotdog (meatier than it sounds) on the way to stave off hunger. Marcus split when we entered the U-bahn and Julius and I headed back to his place to collapse and get as much sleep as we could manage -- he managed a bit more than me :P I woke up quite a few times and ended up getting up for good around 1pm.

But now I'm starting to mix up this entry with the one for the next day :)