Journey Begins
Vienna Day 1
Vienna Day 2
Vienna Day 3 (This post)
Paris Day 1
Paris Day 2
Since the competition was over for the Griffith team Kasey and I had a day to ourselves so we headed off into the city. Kasey wanted to show me hot chocolate that they do really well apparently so we went into a back street coffee house where we were ignored like a piece of furniture :) That is until we stopped someone and they had us sit down at a huge communal table. Think ye olde knight's feasting table and we waited patiently. Others came in and they were seated, menu's provided and orders taken and we still waited... Tried to catch their eye but as we spoke no german, and were basically the worst tourist possible we decided to cut our losses and try something more mainstream.
Please note: I don't hold it against the people in the coffee shop ignoring us. We didn't speaking german and where obviously clueless, we didn't even attempt to speak german and it was busy as hell in there. Moral of the story? If you want to fit in, speak like the locals and don't act like an out of town looser. Evidence of us doing it right when we get to Paris posts :D
On our way back to the city centre we saw a fountain and got someone to take a photo of us.
Back at the city centre we had coffee and an apple fritter which was nice and did some sight seeing
We visted the massive cathedrial which shows off some impressive sights inside!
Just to round off our sight seeing :D A shop you know rocks.
After our wander around we went to Japanese and had some very tasty food with more unfiltered wheat beer and it was off to a late lunch/dinner banquet. Food was so so.
But the girls got more awards and it was really exciting to see that. Here are some action shots at the end
Fast forwarding a bit, we went to Italian that evening but I was soooo stuffed I couldn't eat, so I just had some really nice wine and called it an evening. The wind was pretty feirce before dinner and leaving dinner it was roaring!
It was decided to head to the club where all the other teams where headed so off we went! Lucky for us the rain started in just to make things really misserable :-D It was frick'n cold!!!! It took us a good 15 minutes of slogging through to reach the club once there it was warm and comfortable.
Again my failure to learn ANY german shows through here. I tried to order a beer but in the end gave up and just said "That one" and recived a beer. Random could be said....
The club was packed with people and it looked like their last chance to try and hook up with other lawyerie types (Thats a real word also, Lawyerie. Try it out with your friends and then make fun of them for not knowing its a real word). I am drinking my beer thinking, this is the worst thing EVER! Even worse then domestic beer. I started to feel a bit ill and had a look at the bottle. That's a weird thing to put on a bottle, it looks like a pot leaf.... You have got to be kidding me... Look at the back of the bottle with more crazy pictures... Holy crap.
Yup, hemp beer.
So it was home bound for me! I was struggling to keep the contents of the 4 meals down on our slog back through the rain and wind. What a day!!! I was nausous long into the night.
Here ends our Veinna trip. The following day we head for Paris!
Stay tuned for the thrilling adventure of traveling from Veinna to Paris :D
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