Sunday 29 June 2014 Vienna Sunny 29C This morning we arrived to take the Segway tour and there was just 4 of us, two Canadians and us. Our tour guide Kasper was young and enthusiastic and once we were Segway trained we set off to tour the city. The advantages of the Segway are the distances you can travel in a short time and Vienna is quite large. The tour concentrated on the Ring road around the old city where a lot of the government buildings are, we had a ...

Saturday 28 June 2014 Vienna Sunny 28C I had booked a Segway tour of Vienna to start at 10am but when we arrived they had no record of our booking although I had spoken to the girl at 5.30pm last night. This was unfortunate as the tour was full, so we consoled ourselves with morning coffee and strawberry strudel with vanilla cream (I would call it custard) at Gerstners on the Karnerstrasse. We visited the tourist information office and found there was an Engl...

Friday 27 June 2014 Budapest - Vienna Sunny 26C This morning we set off at 8.15 to catch the train to Vienna. I still had about $20 in Hungarian currency which we managed to spend on food for our journey. We had booked seats on the train which proved to be necessary as the carriages were crowded. It was a 3 hour trip and the scenery we passed was full of wind turbines, corn and wheat. The time passed quickly and we found ourselves surrounded by Australians! Ou...