We were both very excited to see Vienna as Sonja spent the best part of four months in the city about four years earlier. We walked around while Sonja pointed out the dingy hostel she used to live in, the cheap pubs she frequented and streets or buildings that were associated with some of her more elaborate memories. This included struggling through a three hour opera in the Opera house which would have been a fantastic experience if it were in English and we ha...

We decided to stop off in Innsbruck to see some of the Austrian Alps in order to break up the journey to the far east of Austria. In Innsbruck we finally had a chance to try out couch surfing and were taken in by a young couple who were studying in the local university. They lived in a small flat with a spare bedroom where they had two mattresses on the floor and were happy to let travellers use on their way through the area. They were both quite fond of Innsbruc...