Train to Salzburg

On our way into Graz, we’d already noticed the huge mountains, found ourselves looking down at verdant, green valleys with little villages, surrounded by the towering mountains, lots of low lying cloud, which the ever-present rain kept breaking through.

Graz - Surfin the River...

Despite having a pretty shitty transit system, Graz has been much better to us than Vienna. Not in terms of weather, where it was pretty much the same, but it’s a nicer feeling city. Still seems very shopping focussed, but there’s lots of funky architecture to look at also.

More photos, location-tagging

As we've got stable, free internet access while in Graz, we've uploaded some more photos.

I've also started adding them to the Flickr Map, which you can see here.

Vienna - Town of Amusement park !

As you head into Vienna, one of the first things we noticed is that it seemed like a very, very large city. I haven’t looked at the figures and sizes, but it felt larger than Berlin, which is already larger than Paris. Still, for all that, I wasn’t a big fan of Vienna.

From Prague to Vienna

So the other day, we were catching a train from Frankfurt to Dresden. Now it turns out this is the same train that goes from Frankfurt via Dresden and Prague, to Vienna. So this is the 3rd time we’ve been on this train. Not necessarily the exact same train, but the same route – EC173. And when we got on a Frankfurt way back when, a Canadian backpacker got on at the last second, asking if this was going to Prague, and hoping to be on the right train, so we had a good chat for a while. Imagine my surprise when I went for a little walk just now, to find the same guy sitting further down in one of the other first class carriages. What are the chances?