Wednesday - leaving Prague. We (I) decided to drive from Prague to Vienna, against Matt's advice to take a train. He must have been talking to Lou, and be thinking we'll either run out of gas, crash, or get lost. So the Hertz lady shows up at the hotel and tells me I can't have GPS. No problem, got plenty of gas and a map. What's the worst that could happen (um, Matt, did that sign say Iraq border 5 miles?).
So we load up the car, hop in, put it in gear, and proceed to jump the sidewalk. Been a while since I drove a stick and reverse wasn't where I thought it was.
Getting out of Prague was actually easy and 3 hours later, after driving through
little towns in southern Czech Republic we crossed the border into Austria. I have to say, no offense to the Czech, Austria is incredible. We got to Vienna within an hour and realized that it is HUGE and whats with the frickin street names? they're like 100 letters long (Franzaklammerloosinstricken Stratta). Try and look that up on a map and steer at the same time. Thank God Matt can read a map. He did a great job and got us to the hotel.
Staying at
K&K Maria Theresia Hotel. Very nice place near the Museum Quarter. We checked in, ate (vienerschnitzel), and ran over to the
Mozarthaus before they closed. It's a museum located in his old apartment from 1764. Spooky. The museum was great, very cool stuff. Vienna is great, we can't wait to go museum hopping tomorrow. Matt's sleeping as I type this...
Some pics of the road trip here -->
Prague and Vienna Click on "View Slideshow" - no need to sign into Kodak Gallery