Vienna

Vienna, the home of Classical Music. Only one night here, so apparently it was important to make the most of it. I was actually pretty knackered from the Prague experience so my day and a half was full of the world famous Sacher torte and chilling out the main platz. I only went into the one main museum (Sissy) and mostly enjoyed the dreamy weather.

Indeed, there are no kangaroos in Austria

The local Aussie pub in Vienna centre

He's still trying to work out that cameraFrederic Chopin's star of fame (I couldn't find Mozart's square anywhere...)

Can't go to Vienna and not have a Vienna schnitzel

Prague

Now Prague is a beautiful city. It's quite pretty in architechture, the people are nice and the shopping is great. Nabbed a few bargains in the city square on my "free day" including a goatskin jacket and a wicked pair of jeans! Prague was a very inexpensive trip, many of the local foods and beers were very budget.

Blatant advertising at its best, Cheeseburgers for 20Kc - I'm sure this trend will be in Australia soon

Traditional Czech dinner with folk dancing and all!

Praha nightlife

Guards

The Sex Machine Museum

Some of the killer views

11pm in the city square

Berlin

Today was raining. All day. And not like for about 15 minutes, for hours and hours! But we did a massive day of walking on the 3rd Reich tour. We had a geezer called Nigel who was an absolute legend. We ended up at the pub for many Heffe Weisesn rots (reds) and currywurst!

Hitler stood on that very floorboard

The Berlin Wall

The Bunker

The "new" church

A memorial

Currywurst

There's not enough time in the day to be able to post everything up so you'll all have to wait till I get a free hour. Till then, I'm having heaps of fun and I'm off to Prague this morning so I'd better go get ready!

Frankfurt to Berlin

Today was a bit of a write-off, most of our time was spent on the ICE train. We got up to 250km/hr. The train ride was quiet and we got to Berlin in time to grab a chicken schnitzel with frites and salat (more like a giant chicken nugget) and a few biers. Time for bed.

Frankfurt

First things first, photos from yesterday:

The "bus"

In the plane to Frankfurt:

Bus tour around Singapore

Note the 60km/hr and 23 pax
High-rise apartments

A church in the city

Departing Singapore

The start of our second day begins in Frankfurt. Trav and I have just slept our first night away at the Hotel-Domizil. Last night we spent some time with "mister Alex" a German engineer that works with Trav sometimes on the mine. We went to motion bar and had many beers. Those that know Perth, will say we're staying in a suburb like the industrial part of Canning Vale. Surprising how much American music they play in the bars.

The night ended with us using our first Euros on booze and calling it quits at midnight.

Grabbing a shower this morning we headed out for a stroll down Nordenstrasse and did a loop around looking at the shops and heading into the local supermarket (miniMAL). The best thing about supermarkets in Germany is that you can buy alcohol off the shelf. For breakfast I had a schinken pretzel and blackcurrant juice.
Bananas here are only €1.49 not the $13 we pay in Perth.

Okay, time to wind up and grab a taxi to the Frankfurt HB (train station). Next post will be from Berlin. Expecting a nice sunny day and 21degrees.

Walking down Nordenstrasse

The motion bar the morning after

Singapore

Well, I've made it in one piece, humid but sunny Singapore. The flight was 6 hours and much more pleasant than the flight I've taken to Cairns of the same duration. During the flight there was dinner served and after that I popped a sleeping pill with Trav and we were in the land of dreams. He slept like a log and kept nudging me, so I didn't that good a rest, but some sleep is better than none. We landed at Changi at 06:05 right on time.

At first we were prepped to get into one of the transit lounges for a bit of a nap, but they were all booked out. So we decided to walk around a little and grab some food. Burger King (Hungry Jack's) and Subway are the same everywhere :) Never thought I'd be hungry for a Whopper with cheese meal at 07:15!

Trav and I then headed around the shops to check out what was around the airport, mind you, the place is MASSIVE. Although the same shops exists in both T1 and T2. Julz, your bottle of Camus is SGD235 - I'll get one for ya mate! I'll also be making sure I grab a bottle of Royal Salute for dad for a belated Father's Day.

After that we headed to the tourist information desk and tried to book one of the free See Singapore tours. Great, room for only one person. So we were told that we could grab the shuttle bus for free to Little India and hang around the Suntec Shopping Centre. We got there on time, checked into the right desk, but we were still messed up. Unfortunately one of the girls at the desk gave us the wrong information and we missed the 09:00 bus. We then waited for the 10:00 bus but we wouldn't have time to see Little India nor Suntec. She was really sorry and offered us a bookmark and a Singapore tourist photo booklet. You'd never get that service in Australia let alone in Wait Awhile, they'd tell you stiff bickies.

That's one of the main things I've noticed about Singapore, everyone is really friendly and will go out of their way to help you and serve you.

Anyway, back to the bus trip - took some photos off the main highway. Motorbikes everywhere. Thing that I love the most is that they have trayback trucks with rego stickers that say "70km/hr" and "8 pax" for the people riding in the back! Awesome.

No photos this time, the connection isn't that fast here at the Rainforest Lounge. Anyways, time to soon get going onto the next leg: Singapore to Frankfurt. We're due in Frankfurt at 20:30 so it will be straight into bed tonight I think.

Till next time...

Final Call!

I haven't really thought about it too much, but I'm going to Europe in about 5 hours. Hmm.
I did a massive amount of work today.

Only God knows how deadlines that never existed seem to find me on the day that I should be chilling out getting ready for the holiday ahead. I didn't even get to eat a proper lunch. At 2pm I thought I was going to die. And if it wasn't for the fact that I was starving, I never would have made it through that bowl of seafood flavoured shite they call noodles. Coke makes everything taste better.

Noting that, I was quite busy today and got a fair amount of work done, stuff that would be waiting for me upon my return to work, so hopefully the severity of it all won't be as bad.
So for now, the final blog before I fly out. I think I've packed everything... Ah well. Got my plastic fantastic to help me on my way.

Here's me almost ready to head to the airport:

I'm chatting on MSN with about 4 people at the same time, all of which keep reminding me that MSN is going to be darn quiet without me. I hate to see what happens at work without me for 3 weeks. The bastards might actually get some work done!

Oh, on another note, I got my hair cut and coloured - time for a bit of a change (as you do).

I'm lucky on this trip as my birthday will be in Krakow, but last night I caught up with Julz and Chloe for a meal at the Queens. She got me a gift wrapped in paper then "engineered" with shrink wrap! Krafty! It was one of the penguins from the Madagascar movie, the Private.

"And me, Skipper?"
"I want you to look cute and cuddly Private. Today we're going to blow this dump."