Leaving Prague we followed the sort of path between cities that we are getting rather good at. After an early morning breakfast it was time to put the packs on again. We began with a short walk up the road to the Metro where we caught the Line 2 underground from IP Pavlova Station, through 5 stops to the second of Prague’s major train stations. We then caught the train from Prague to Vienna a trip of 418 kms, which took about 4 hours. Then at Vienna we again quickly acquainted ourselves with another cities public transport system and we caught a number 18 tram about 6 stops from the South Vienna train station to the West Vienna train station. Then we had a short walk of about a one kilometre to our hostel and home for the next three nights – Wombat Vienna. We are getting so efficient that we arrived before our room was ready so we placed our bags in storage and enjoyed our pre-prepared devon and cheese rolls.
The rest of the day we spend wandering around and getting acquainted with another wonderful European city – Vienna. Vienna is a bit of a European ‘new kid on the block’ with most of the wonderful and beautiful buildings dating back only to the late 18th and early 19th century. The city was also gearing up for a relatively new phenomenon, football. We found that most of the public parks and spaces were closed as Austria prepares to host the EUFA Cup in the month of June.
Though we are not usually drawn to kitsch post cards later in the day we saw one we could not resist - No Kangaroos in Austria.
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