AUSTRIA!!!

Since the 8th of this month we have been in my favourite country by far (so far that is...so many to go) Austria! It is even more beautiful than Prague was and a bit neater and less bums. So many bums in Europe.

Anyway, our first two nights were spent in Vienna and it is just gorgeous. Everyone who keeps up with Sarah's blog will have seen the photos but the photos don't do it any justice at all. Our hostel was a half hour walk from the old town centre and everyday we'd be walking down the shopping strip, modern buildings and shops and then suddenly the old buildings start. They just go on forever, are so huge and ornate and just gorgeous. All museums, concert halls, universities and basically anything that you would imagine in such a cultural area like Austria. I am definitly coming back when i have a higher budget to go to the opera and actually go inside the museums and stuff rather than gawk from the outside. Both nights we tried to go and see an opera at the huge outdoor theatre that they have set up for free, but one night it pelted down rain and we left before it started and the second we didn't even get there because there was a thunderstorm! Such bad luck!

After that we had three nights in Salzburg. Any dedicated Sound of Music fans would have been in absolute heaven. It's where the film was shot and the entire town is full of locations from the movie, Mirabell Gardens, the Convent, just everything. One day we watched the movie and then we did the Sound of Music bus tour which takes you out of town to the lake district, such beautiful big mountains and cute towns and...it was just so cute! We saw the church and the Von Trapp House and all this other stuff. It was funny on the tour though because it was a huge bus of tourists, every nationality imaginable and yet everybody sand along together. ''Doh, a deer a female deer....''

So that was one thing we did in Salzburg another was one night, me and Ash went out with two boys from Vienna who were having a short vacation. WELL they said that they were best friends and one even had a girlfriend but they were so gay! One was a model and just seemed so girly and not even hiding his gayish tendencies. In the bar we went to they were dancing with us one minute and the next they'd be dancing very provokatively with each other. Well it was just the most fun I've had on this trip, I have not laughed that much at one time in the last two months. So much fun. After the clubs, they tried to be all gentlemenly with us, gave us their jackets and we walked arm in arm along the river. And then (this part just made my night) one of them danced the Viennese Waltz with me on the bank of the river. It was so fun! I danced the Viennese Waltz with a guy from Vienna. Well I'm excited even if you aren't.

We're paying for the late night now though. Ash has swollen glands, sore throat and a terrible ear ache and I am just beginning to get the sore throat. Great.

We are in Munich now for four, maybe five nights. So many daytrips and stuff planned...hope we feel better soon!