November 22, 2011
Tuesday
We ate lunch at the airport and left Seattle around 1:30pm
November 23, 2011
Wednesday
We landed in Amsterdam about 7:30 a.m. We had an hour layover but boarded right away since we had to go through immigration and security again. We landed in Munich an hour later on KLM. (Royal Dutch Airlines.) The long flying never seems to bother us. We travel a lot and maybe are a little used to it by now. I love the quote from Dick Clark “”Jetlag is for armatures.” Sounds a bit stuck up if you ask me but it’s kind of true!
Wednesday
We landed in Amsterdam about 7:30 a.m. We had an hour layover but boarded right away since we had to go through immigration and security again. We landed in Munich an hour later on KLM. (Royal Dutch Airlines.) The long flying never seems to bother us. We travel a lot and maybe are a little used to it by now. I love the quote from Dick Clark “”Jetlag is for armatures.” Sounds a bit stuck up if you ask me but it’s kind of true!
We got to baggage claim and just as we did an announcement came on; “Michael Barrett please come to customer service.” Great! You guessed it our luggage was still in Amsterdam! They gave us a gift coupon for KLM and said they would deliver our luggage on the next flight to Vienna. Our plan was once we got to Munich we were renting a car and driving four hours to Vienna Austria. Wow It’s a weird thing when you think about it. Our luggage is in one country, we are in another and on our way to the third! It ended up working out. By the time we got to our hotel in Vienna we had been awake 26 hours straight. We were fine until about that last hour of driving. We actually pulled over at a rest stop and slept for about 15 minutes. The trip would have been a lot longer but going 120 mph on the autobahn helps! Plus we had a nice Audi!
We drove through downtown on the way to our hotel and saw a huge church with a gothic steeple. I don’t know which one it was. We’ll have to get a better look at it during the day. We passed “Wiener Prater” which is a park with a
huge Ferris wheel that was in the Orson Wells movie, “The third man.” We were so tried that we ate dinner at the hotel. We both had “Wiener schnitzel.” It was really good.
They said the luggage usually gets in about midnight and
do we, want them to call us! We said NO! We went to bed
about 9 p.m. It worked out great because our luggage was
at the hotel the next morning!
huge Ferris wheel that was in the Orson Wells movie, “The third man.” We were so tried that we ate dinner at the hotel. We both had “Wiener schnitzel.” It was really good.
They said the luggage usually gets in about midnight and
do we, want them to call us! We said NO! We went to bed
about 9 p.m. It worked out great because our luggage was
at the hotel the next morning!
Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Rick Steve’s describes Vienna Austria as the Paris of Eastern Europe. It really did remind us of Paris in a lot of ways. We got up and took the U-Bahn (Subway or metro) downtown to the Rathaus which is the Town Hall. There was a “Christkindelmarkt” (Christmas Market) there. Most of the markets started this week in Europe. We were here last year the same time. We love it! It’s beautiful. Everything is Christmas and cozy! We both agree if it was warm we would have been so disappointed! That’s so much a part of it all. Cozy outside fires, Christmas lights, hot chocolate, shopping, going to all the Christmas Markets, more shopping and warm clothes. Then when you have had enough you go to a nice thermal spa! What a great way to end a cold walking busy day!
