This Posting is so belated, but I felt I had to include our trip to Vienna just for the memory. We went down late November and it rained the whole time. But it was still a really nice trip and it was a stunning city. We went down with the train and it was supposed to take 3 hours......Unfortunately we got stuck in this place called Goyr in Hungary for ages as our connecting train was so late. It was so frustrating to be stuck in this place and not know what was going on,we could not find anyone that spoke English or German until some beggars came along and asked us in Hungarian for money,Gareth explained we where English and suddenly they switched over to perfect English asking for money. So, how is it that the homeless speak better English than the so called "educated"..........Due to being so late we got there several hours later than planned and all the shops where shut. Mummy was not happy. We eventually found our hotel which was central Vienna, and I found Starbucks (hurraaaaay). The following morning we got up and found a tram that took us around Vienna great compensation for the normal costly tourist buses and a great escape from the rain. Jack was in his usual "happy" mood and only threw 4-5 rock star tantrums. They where busy turning the town hall into one massive Christmas advent Calender and all the Christmas market stalls where being put up, and you really did get that Christmas feeling. At least I got to eat Sacher cake (sachertorte) in Vienna, one of the million things listed to do before I am 50......... The Sunday was spent looking for Christmas ornaments as me and Gareth have this little family "tradition". Whenever we go places we try and find something from that place to hang on our Christmas tree, but it is not that straight forward as I am a freak for needing things to match. So it can only be white,silver or dark blue........but I found something and was eventually satisfied with my trip to Vienna. It was also nice to be a place where I actually understood the language and I could communicate with my little German, I was really surprised how much I actually remembered from my school days 10 years ago. It was nice to go and me and Jack have been back a couple of times since. Going home we managed to change our train to a direct one.
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