Posted by Rainer Brockerhoff (away):
I’m in another small Internet Café, on our second day in Vienna, Austria. Vienna is a large, old, fascinating and expensive city. We succeeded in finding a place at a relatively inexpensive pension near the historical center, and stashed the car away in a suburban all-day parking lot, so it’s bearable… most attractions are only 10 or 20 minutes away on foot.

Tomorrow we’re off to Budapest where we’ll either just drive around the city and come back in the evening, or stay for the night. Then it’s back to Austria and into the Czech Republic, we may stay a couple of days at Prague.

In the last couple of days, we’ve visited several extremely interesting tourist attractions, among them the huge Ice Cave in the Austrian Dachstein mountains and the old salt mine at Berchtesgaden. The drive eastwards to Vienna was an attraction by itself; the land is even more beautiful than the Canadian Rockies or the North California coast.

More as soon as possible…