Can you imagine Freud and a bunch of other famous composers heading down to the coffee shop to have a drink and a chat? Did you know that Austria is where schnapps and red bull was invented? Did you know that they were the first place in the world to elect a female ruler: empress Maria Theresa, who had sixteen children and saved hundreds of thousands of lives because she decided it would be better NOT to fully immerse babies in freezing cold water in winter to be baptised!
The first night we went for a traditional Austrian meal - the soup was amaaazzziiinnngggg - and then headed back to the hostel to get changed for, dun dun dun dunnnnnnn, Prater Park!!!!! Basically the coolest place ever: roller coasters, rides, side shows, toys, food, dodgem cars, a race track, PURE AWESOMENESS!!!!! I went on rides until I could ride no more, and everyone had a total blast!!! I put a video on Facebook if anyone cares to watch it ^.^
(26/6/15) The following day we headed back off to the Summer Palace (Schönbrunn Palace) and took a tour through the rooms. I wasn't allowed to take any photos, but I was at one point standing in the room where Mozart performed his very first private so very, at the tender age of six years old, after which he apparently jumped on the empress' lap and gave her a kiss! Such history!!!!!!!! I'm trying to soak it all in.
After walking around the grounds for a while, and checking out the rest of the palace garden, we made our way back into the city centre and had some lunch and did a spot of shopping (Michael bought a sprite, which turned out to be coke, but had a very appropriate label for him).
From there, we met up with some of the other tour members and Joe (fantastic bus driver extraordinaire) drove us all to the Schnapps Museum!!! I only tried a couple of the testers, but they were all delicious. Except for the absinthe. That wasn't so delicious in my opinion, haha.
After that, we head back to the hostel, grabbed some food for dinner in the street and then had a reasonably quiet evening hanging out with tour group members and having a good laugh. Safe to say that there will be some tears when saying goodbye - I've made some lovely new friends. Hard to believe that this tour is just past the halfway point now! Eep! Sent a couple of postcards to school, so keep an eye out for them, OSHCIES and BUSH BuDDIES. Love you all! Bon & Mike. xo
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