October 31, 2007 | Filed under: It's Called "Having a Life." You Should Try It.

Now that I have a whopping dozen words in my vocabulary and know how to get to the train station, the bus station, have learned the names of most of the tram stops on two different routes that I take to the center of the city AND have conducted a transaction at the post office entirely in Czech, I decided life was getting too easy.

So I boarded a train to Vienna.

Let me tell you: it is very German here.  I’m not sure I was prepared for that.  The breakfast spread is very similar to that in Prague, with the addition of hazlenut spread.  (Think Nutella — chocolatey, nutty peanut-butter-like substance.)  I ate bologna, as it looked far more appetizing than the bologna in Prague, and I am so tired of ham.  No more ham!  It’s all sausage, all the time here in Vienna!  (Good thing, too, because there is no shortage of places to get oneself a sausage.)

I’m still not comfortable with the language, but I can read a lot more of it than Czech, even if I can’t speak it worth a damn.

Gotta go, internet time is about to expire.

1. lisa says:
   

   Sounds like you are having a fabulous time! And I’m impressed with your new command of (a dozen words of) the Czech language!

   October 31st, 2007 at 6:42 am
2. Kat says:
   

   I’m impressed that you were able to speak your way around. Good for you! Yeah, gotta’ love that ham al’ right. Don’t forget to have a ham burger for us!

   October 31st, 2007 at 9:22 pm