Dear All Well, it's Friday and I'm still in Brasov which I am enjoying thoroughly. Monday night was good fun with about 15 of us from the hostel going out. Nightlife in Brasov isn't exactly hopping so it took about 30 minutes of wandering around just to find a place that was open but it was fun anyway. On Tuesday, most of the hostel (about 20 of us) took the day trip to Bran and Rasnov castles. Bran was pretty spectacular from the outside but a bit of an antic...

My last day in Vienna (Thursday) was pretty cool. I went to the Hofburg which is the previous residence of the Hapsburg Emperors and Empresses. The Spanish Riding School is also in Hofburg and they have cheap (well, cheap for Europe) tickets to their morning exercise, so I watched horsies run around to classic music for 2 hours. I then went to the museum-y part of the Hofburg which started with the Silver Museum. Basically this consisted of a whole crapload of c...