Vienna 2025

The alarm was set for 8am but I’d already had 2 alarming episodes during the night and I’m blaming that kebab. Apocalyptic. So, I decided to skip breakfast and Joss did the same to gain some extra sleep. We slept in until about 10 then we got ourselves ready and packed everything up. The hotel said they’d happily look after our bags (for free) as we were still early for our flight so we headed into town for a stroll. I feel that I have become a lot more Austrian and that Vienna really knows me. A thought confirmed by whilst waiting to cross a road, a lorry pulled up, carrying a portaloo - so appropriate. It had got a LOT colder. We stopped off in a cafe and surprise surprise I had a toasted sandwich whilst Joss had a roll and croissant. I was keen to have something plain for obvious reasons…. We wandered around a bit but as it was so cold and we didn’t really have somewhere to aim for, we decided to go back to the hotel and Joss made the management decision of ordering a taxi rather th...

In answer to “how will I make it up for breakfast” the answer is….. I didn’t. I actually woke up at 10, just as breakfast finished. I didn’t feel absolutely awful but I was right in my prediction that I would be doing a lot of sighing. We wandered over the canal / river and I’ll be honest, neither of us were moving that well but we headed towards the cathedral as we remembered that it had stuff around it that might be open on a Sunday. We went into a cafe and we both had toasted sandwiches. When we’d finished we left and were still moving like zombies so we went into ANOTHER cafe and Joss had strudel whilst I had….another toasted sandwich. At the time I thought, drinking really isn’t for me - it’s a young man’s sport. After a pit stop at the hotel we caught a tube to the ground of Rapid Vienna. The local “ultras” did not look friendly so we swerved the local bar and did some club shopping. By the time that was over we were able to go into the ground as we’d bought VIP tickets to the lo...