I was in Vienna!

Not having rest so much after the las trip to Wroclaw, Andy told us in Tuesday that we had the tickets for going to Vienna and Bratislava, and just after going to World Press Photo,

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/
Krakow

(Entrance 5PLN)

and before entering the cinema (James Bond, Quantum of Solace)

he showed me the branch of tickets.
Finally, they were 240 PLN for going to Vienna and for returning from Bratislava. Not so cheap as I expected...

During the trip to Vienna, while we occupied to seats each (Andy, Artur, Francesco, Alex and me), we were talking from 21:15 to, more or less, one hour later, before I fell asleep.The trip was kind of long one until 5:00am.
Once being in Vienna, we had no idea where to go neither how to get our hostel
http://www.meininger-hostels.com/ and this was our first mistake that ended up in spending ours first 4€ each one for taking a taxi to get the place.

Hence, our trip started to get colour having a main place, maps and staff who informed us where to go and what to do.
One of the best things that happened to us was that the guy from the reception allowed us to enter the bedroom that night, not having paid for it. Of course, after 8-hour trip we were kind of tired and we took the opportunity of sleeping 3 hour before departing to the city center.
Going to the center and discover what Vienna had for us was the next thing we did, after having breakfast and taking our cameras.
We chose the 48h-10€ ticket for the next two days.
As the weather was not so good and we had read that tram no.1 had a kind of circled way where you could see most of the important buildings of the whole city, we got on it and "sight-saw" the city.
When we thought that the tour was over, I got off the tram which such a bad luck that the tram left when I was outside.
Here I am running after the tram...


My friends kindly got off the tram in the next stop and waited for me, after that we just walked having some problems to find the closest metro station.Even with problems our destiny was clear: Donaustadt, a little "island", where the UN building is placed.

Nothing more was actually so interesting there apart from the big Danube flowing under our wet shoes.
Coming back to our steps, we took a look around the Parliament, the City hall and the University, where a book market was taking place.
I have to admit that I really liked the infrastructure in there and I wouldn't mind to study there for a period of time, as my current flatmate Anita is going to do next semester...
Even with a nice building, we couldn't find a good place for eating, we decided to leave and take some hotdogs (aprox. 3,40€ each). It was no the best option but when you are hungry...
With something in the stomach, our clothes a bit wet and our hands frozen, we looked for a coffee place, without knowing that we would have to pay 3,30€ for a chocolate and 3,40€ for a typical "Melange" coffee.

Nevertheless it gave us strength for taking the map and point out a new place for visiting, the Schönbrunn Schloss (castle) and the gardens around it. Unfortunately, the sun wasn't with us for much longer and we couldn't appreciate the castle so well, deciding to find a warm place for staying the next couple of hours.
Moreover, we realized that we had a shopping centre close to our place, so got that way after having no direction and were surrounding the beautiful city centre,
After all, we seemed a bit tired and decided to get the hostel, rest an clarify things before our next step...
No choice had we we all fell asleep, we think, due to the long trip, the few hours slept and the long and exhausting day in the capital of culture in Europe, Vienna.
So, our next, already mentioned, step was taking a shower next day and get ready for a new day of sightseeing.
This one we visited the Museum of natural history, the national library and finally the Rathaus, where a free guided tour (in German) took place.
Afterwards, and like in every moment, we were hungry. A new member of the group was with us, a German girl friend of Andy (from Australia) who is studying in Vienna at the moment. And she knew a place for eating with "student" prices.
I think 6€ for a dish of fish, a drink and an apple is not a student price but we realised that we were in one of the most expensive cities in Europe...
The eaten fish was valid for resisting the next ours until we departed to Bratislava.
In these, more or less, 3 hours, we met a new place, a kids park.


It was near the Ernst-Happel stadium, where if I remember well, Spain defeated Germany 1-0 in the football Eurocup. Yes! we are European champions finally!


Next action was taking our rack-sacks and taking the bus (at 18:30) to Bratislava, where new language, people, prices and traditions were waiting for us...