We finally arrived in Vienna. A little colder here. Viena is all smiles.
We rose at 6AM and shortly afterwards our bags were packed on our backs and another door was locked and closed behind us and we were once again “homeless” walking the early morning streets of Rome on the way to Vienna Austria. A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum and past the Colosseum for the final time. The windy angular streets of Rome are becoming familiar to me by now. Yesterday’s discovery of the Oppim Hills playground was a truth to this fact. Today, we walked 90 minute to Termini Station where we waited for another 90 minutes for our bus to Ciampino Airport where we waited another 2 hours. Sound fun. The flight over South Central Europe was scenically wonderful. The lands are all green and carved up farmed quadrangles. Green flat forested land cleared geometrically for farming. The Ryanair flight flew low over the land. Ryanair flying is an experience in itself. Everyone needs to fly Ryanair once in their life. I have never seen so many people running across the tarmac so they can board the plan first and grab their nice window seats or select seats near family in our case. Ryanair charges for everything, even seat selection. To check a bag is 50 to 100 dollars. We boarded the jet with our allotted 4 small bags and of we flew. We could feel the temperature change in the plane as we flew North. We landed in Bratislava and took a taxi into Bratislava center. We had another 2 hours before our water taxi into Vienna so we walked around the harbour area of Bratislava and were pleasantly surprised. We found a quaint little town section full of cable cars, old style cars and an European style McDonalds. People we dressed in coats and hats and scarves and gloves – a different climate then we have been in. The temperature change we felt in the plane was not just altitude but latitude. In the airplane we could see the clouds start to gather the farther North we flew. The Croatian Islands were something new to my eyes. The rains began as we sat on our boat on the Danube River – Our European Alaskan Ferry Experience. Viena was all smiles embracing the rains atop the watercraft. The rains fell and the skies grew grayer as we cruised upstream on the wide brown river of the Danube passing castles and ruins from times ago. Our new host Susanna greeted us at the harbour in Wien. This is so nice when we are greeted in unfamiliar places. We walked the Danube canal to our new place. Home Sweet Home. Such good hospitality. Viena has arrived in Vienna and there are toys everywhere.
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