This morning we drove into the city and around the Ringstrasse, past the Aussie pub we went to 5 years ago, the Natural History and Art History museums, Marie-Therese Platz, Parliament, Town Hall, University, Votiv church, State Opera, Danube Canal and Urania (the Observatory). We then started our walking tour at Marie-Therese Platz, through the original city gates to the Hapsburg Winter Palace, saw the 3 clocks, the President's residence, the Sisi museum, Spanis...

As we crossed the border into Austria the trucks were lined up for miles (the Austrian police can apparently be quite officious)! On the way in to Vienna we had to drive through a hailstorm (the temperature dropped about 10 degrees within minutes) and then a flooded road where construction was taking place. A little further on there were cars under water in a car park. We saw the biggest industrial site yet - we couldn't believe how big it was. Once we got to o...