Hei vaan kaikki and greetings from Wien this time!
We came here on Thursday evening to enjoy Simons and Lenas nice company, and so far we have had so nice time, that we are staying here until tomorrow =) So before coming here we were in Prague for three nights in the camping next to the city centre. Its quite funny how there people are making their living so that they put fence around their garden, arrange some electricity plug-ins in the lawn, put showers and toilets in the basement, and invite people to stay at their camping. Really funny =) We were staying in one of these, but the one we were was really well equipped and nice and clean.
Prague itself was lovely city, a bit rusty and rough from the edges but the old town was well kept, but not totally sterile. I liked it a lot how it looked like. But i was so surprised how TOURISTY the whole place was... These low-cost flying companies never do anything good for the cities, since in the old town you couldnt get forward in the huuuuge crowd of non-local people. Hmm.... And then all the shops were filled with all possible Made in China -crap, so to find something from Prague itself was a bit of a challenge. But, as usual, after you walked three blocks away from the touristic masses, then you found some places where locals hang around. Just that then the atmosphere was not the same anymore, and the more distant neighborhoods where some what different. And biking in Prague was even more disaster than biking in Düsseldorf - a total mess! But we finally found our way biking next to the Vltava river.
But in total the city was lovely; Cheap and good beer and tasty food =) And one evening we went to the National Ballet to see Cinderella. That was my first time ever in ballet, and i have to admit that i like it better than opera. We had my poor little binoculars with us, so that we could really see also the faces and huge muscles of the dancers. We had really ookoo places on the first balcony, and the tickets for that Wednesday evening were only 25e. So if you happen to stop by in Prague then dont miss the ballet =)
But what about Wien then? Also lovely and beautiful city (am i using the same adjectives all the time?..) and really well kept but somehow a bit boring.. Like Lena and Simon said - theres some kind of soul missing, and i agree. We spent Friday in going around the old town and accidentally ended up in a round trip in the crypt of the big cathedral. No pictures were allowed to be taken, but we saw huuge piles of bones under the floors here and there - spooky.. On the same evening Simon and Lena introduced us THE schnitzel place where ordering a schnitzel means getting two huge ones on one plate. Yummy! And then in the eveing we went to Ost Club where they play gipsyish-ska-east european music. Great place! There were two concerts - one band from Netherlands and another from Hungary called Upsessions. Both played fast and happy reggae and even almost ska which you quite rarely hear in Finland. The second band played and sang truy well, but still i think that i was the only one enjoying the bands =) The reast of our troop (it was Simons colleagues byebye party) concentrated more on the talking and dancing and drinking shots =) But great evening and fabulous people <3
And then what.. Hmm... Since the party was nice we stayed there until the very end, so yesterday we spent a lazy Sunday (although it was Saturday) and in the afternoon we went to flea market and food marked where we bought squids for tonights dinner, hihii =) And on the way home we stopped by in Schönebrunn castle just when the sun was getting down. Huuuuuuge park with zoo and all. And the greatest thing yesterday was in the evening when with Lenas cooking skills we prepared haluski, a traditional Slovak dish with lamb milk cheese and bacon. Yummy! They were like small potato dumplings or gnocci but the dough was made from raw potatoes smashed in a kitchen blender and not from cooked potatoes like the gnocci. Yummy! I took some pictures from the ready dish but unfortunately i forgot the cable of my camera in Berlin, so no pictures for you this time =)
And then its today. Nothing too much has happened so far, just lazy and laid-back Sunday. Maybe ill report later how the squids became today evening, that will be quite something...
*bisous* to you all, and catcha later!
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