Anyone know what a travel fart is? If you don't let us tell you. A travel fart is when you get to a new city and you land up doing absolutely nothing there. Nothing. You don't go see any sights, you don't listen to any sounds. You just sleep, eat and do nothing. This was our experience of Vienna, Austria.

We arrived in Vienna after literally catching our bus from Hungary as it was about to pull off and having to argue why we should still be allowed on - no thanks on this one to travel info people that send you to the wrong bus station. Arriving to a ridiculous heat wave, which our hostel was definitely not prepared for, didn't help cheer us up. In fairness, the hostel that we stayed at was probably one of the best we've stayed at but they were just caught with their pants down when the heat wave came in and only managed to provide useless standing fans for the rooms. It's difficult to motivate yourself to go sightseeing in this kind of heat and eventually we just gave in to the fact that we weren't going to do much in terms of touring and instead we focused our energies on recovering our energy and just chilling - well, chilling is a bad word as it was not cool at all and that heat led more to numb relaxing than chilling.

Relaxing involved watching series and movies - between us, we managed to get through four full seasons of different series and about five movies. Catching up on writing blogs. Sorting out pictures. And, best of all, we didn't set our alarms once for waking up. It was pretty much only doing things that didn't require us to leave our beds or that we couldn't do sitting at a table.

We also got to catch up on what was happening back home in Jozi. It's not as easy keeping in touch with people when travelling around Europe as it is in America. There is no multi-country sim card that you can get for moving across European countries. This means that you'd need to buy a different sim in each country, and load cash onto the card in each country, or pay exorbitant roaming costs to keep one sim card. Buying data can also get expensive as your short time in each country leaves the monthly packages and bundles largely unused. The end result is that we've chosen to keep our SA phones on roaming for smsing/texting home and wifi has become our best friends as we can use Skype for chatting to people online or making cheap phone calls (its $0.07/min to call a landline in SA). Facebook and email are our other modern forms of communication.

All our free time also meant that we were able to finally do laundry at a reasonable hour of the day and in a relaxed manner. Usually we'd land up washing at the random hours of the day around midnight. But here we could take our time and wash at our leisure. Believe it or not this was quite a luxury for us. Another thing that you wouldn't expect from these two mlungus that had never done laundry before heading out into the world is that we've become experts. No longer are we afraid of whites and colours. Delicate fabrics and cottons are now meaningful. Laundry separators are our friends. And temperature selection has become as easy as integration and derivatives. It's amazing what skillsyou learn when travelling.

So we won't be able to tell you what to see in Vienna or where to go eat. And we won't be able to tell you the best way to get around. All we'll tell you is to make sure you check the weather reports before you go and don't go during a heat wave.

Trek on…Brett and Darren