Day 28

14/09/2011 – Day 28

Vienna

You can’t stop in a place like Vienna and leave the next day, so we took another day off for sightseeing. As this is my first time here I wanted to see the usual things, city centre, museums etc. But quite frankly I was disappointed.

It is very touristic and full, we were amazed last night how difficult it was to find a room, and those we did find were far too expensive for what they were offering.

The room we had tried for last night was free this morning so we transferred over to it and walked into the centre to look around. They obviously want the place to be very upmarket as all the top shops were there but the prices for coffee and food are upmarket too.

All in all I was not impressed, the place is dirty, there is graffiti everywhere and the traffic is terrible for a tourist city centre, once you are inside the ring road you are effectively trapped.

Once we returned to the room M realised he had not seen his phone since this morning. I called it to see if we could hear it ringing but no luck. It is possible that he left it in the hostel last night. Unusually I left the room first so did not do the normal last sweep to make sure we had everything.