Another week flies by .... another post comes up :-)
Writing or rather updating my blog is something I look forward to on trips now.. making mental notes of the places I would mention or the sights I would describe..
This weekend saw us take a tour of north Italy and Austria... beginning our trip with a stopover at Milan.. a gr8 city, with nothin much to see except the Duomo which is a huge huge church. What made my trip was the 5 storey FERRARI store. IT was a dream come true especially after last weekend's stopover at the FERRARI showroom and workshop...
A fabulous store with great great stuff and sections dedicated to Kids, Fans and Books amongst others. They had the 2006 F1 car on display, a pic of which shall be up soon.
Worth a mention is the Youth hostel here as it was the bigggest we have seen and one of the best maintained.
After Milan we took a train to Venice which as many would know is the city of canals...the city is really small and that tempted us to save some money and choosing to walk rather than the water buses which are exteremely pricey. Its extermely romantic and we walked all the way across town and back to the Piazaa S. Marco which has a Palce, a church and a huge bell tower.
I bought myself a Mask and a Fan! Dunno who gets those though yet ;-)
We can definitely learn a few things from things, after all not a single NAALA in Mumbai is worth seeing.. though I must admit the NAALA park at Koregaon Park pune is worth a visit :-)
Venice by the way also didnt have any place for us in the Youth Hostel there forcing us to take a night train to Vienna, Austria :-)
This train was a gr8 one as it was similar to our 3 tier AC train and we met a couple of Indians with us making it 5/6 Indians. SO it just felt like Home :-D
the early morning sun brought us into Vienna, a city full of museums, the opera and palaces. The place with performances by Mozart, Beethoven and the likes, AMAZING is the best word I have for the Grand Opera House here. (Once again wait till my album is updated)
Its amazing because of the size, the technology, the art, the theatre they showcase and the sheer scale of things that happen there. A true true Gem of my visit. One that I wont forget for a looo ng time. The guided tour was the perfecct way to see it and for a few moments I felt I should have stayed the night to watch an Opera here.. but tats reserved for Paris now
Another feaure of Vienna was my first visit of starbucks... which lived up to every word I heard about it, because It served the MOST AWESOME CREAMY CHOCOLATE PASTRY!! A touch expensive but awesome!!! worth every penny
Also at Vienna was the Belvedare palace and the Hosburg palace both of which are huge and very well maintained... its a great blend of old architecture with modern technology and all things latest. THe highlight definitely being the Opera house.
Taking an overnight train home was extremely happy to bump into an old freind from pagalguy.com (Maverick for those who know the place and the guy :P) heading into Paris to finally takea train home to Lyon.....
Final word for this trip would deifnitely be that after just 2 weeks France and French already seem familiar and Italian and German in Italy and Austria respectively were just like greek and latin to me and we missed our Bon jour and Merci :-)
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