Vienna

I am now in Vienna or Wein as they call it. Yesterday I went on a bike tour at dusk which was good (but not enough information about beautiful Vienna). Yesterday during the day some of us went on a day trip to Bratislava in Slovakia. It was only one hour by train - thats from Belgrave to the City!!!!! But how crazy to be able to go from not only one country to another but from one capital to another!!! They had the Red Bull flying competition where these small planes have to fly in and around these inflatable poles really fast.... it's like a time trial. It was good fun to sit there and eat lunch and watch the planes. We also wandered around the castle and the old town.

Vienna is great fun. The night before last I was walking around a stumbled across the film festival they have here during the Summer. The problem with Vienna in the Summer is that none of the opera houses or concert halls are open... even the Dancing Spanish Horses are having a holiday so you can't go to anything which is a real shame (I'll just have to come back some time - I already have a list of places I have too see in Europe on my next trip !). Traveling is so exciting.... I get excited when I hear about where other people are going or where they are coming from. So during the Summer months they have this big film festival... it is all free... you just rock up at 9pm and they show films or operas or concerts projected on to this big screen in the town square. It was good fun. I saw some really old jazz musician... he was like 70 or something.... playing tunes like "I did it my way".

love cush