Tuesday, August 7, 2012

This morn started slow. Our hotel, the one with a dog meat entrance and a premier room, does not provide breakfast, so Phil, needing a caffeine hit left for the backerie across the street. There he purchased a kaffee and what looked like a soft pretzel with salt. Well, the kaffee turned out to be syrup comming out of the same whiz-bang kaffee machine that produced syrup at our previous hotel breakfasts, the pretzel turned out to be a strange donut with sugar chunks on it. He's still working on his European epicurean skills. Further training occurred when he went back across the street to a Subway (you heard right a Subway) to get a real cup of coffee at an AMERICAN company; well dang, they had the same kaffee machine:) having successfully ingested his required caffeine dosage he returned to rubber legs to plan a ride on the city tour bus. The on-off bus proved to be great, particularly for rubber legs, and it took us to all the top tourist attractions including, the Olympic park, the Olympic ski jump, the palace (yes, the Hapsburg's got around building palaces all over Austria, this one has a large number of suits of armor), and finally back to old town where we walked around looking at old stuff again - we really like old stuff. (good thing!)  Oh yes, we did see some new stuff; specifically we found an Apple store where we purchased a photo kit that allowed us to import our new pictures to the IPad. Goody gum drops, we can now send the pics out into the cloud. Then back to the hotel just in time for the sky's to open up and drench the city. Oh happy day:). Tomorrow we plan on ascending another mountain via funicular and cable car but we will NOT be descending on foot again until rubber legs regains use of same.

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