Dinner last night was interesting. We were bussed to a place on the outskirts of Vienna - city meets Vienna Woods - to and old guesthouse at a vineyard for what was described as a typical rustic Austrian meal at which, in past times, the new vintage was sampled.
It was indeed, very crowded, very noisy and as the evening wore on, exceedingly hot.
Geoff immediately assumed it would be a cross between a BBQ and a hofbrauhaus beer swill so we weren't expecting much in the way of haute cuisine. The meal was a self service buffet thing, but the food was surprisingly good, and the sparkling mineral water was very welcome but the wine was barely drinkable. German oom pah pah music (live) added to the noise and all in all we were glad when it was time to return.
I gather from comments made this morning there were a lot of complaints, but it was an experience and really not too bad.
We went to sleep as usual with the doors and curtains wide open and I woke about 6.30 to lots of lights only to find another boat rafting up to ours and so close that if you put your hand out of our door it would be in their kitchen. So we were up very quickly to shut doors and curtains.
About 7am we set sail from Vienna, which involved navigating a very deep lock and arrived in Slovakia late morning. (Bratislava is only 35 miles, or maybe kilometres, I'm not sure which, from Vienna).
After lunch we had another walking tour for a few hours and once again learnt a lot of history about the place as we walked. It was very cold, but still clear blue skies and mainly sunny, so we have been very lucky so far. It wouldn't be much fun going on all these walking tours in the pouring rain.
After two hours of waiting for pictures to upload I've given up on then so no pictures tonight. Maybe I'll have a better connection tomorrow.
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