Vienna

Arrived in Vienna's Sudbahnof station at around 5pm on Friday evening. Immediately booked our seats on the Sunday night train to Venice and then headed to the hostel. Got to the hostel without any problems, which was a bonus, as it was pretty hard to find the hostel in Prague at first! We headed out for something to eat then sat in a pub and had a few beers before heading back to the hostel. We got talking to some folk in our room who seemed pretty cool, bar this one Indian guy who snored, kept f###ing about with his bag and turning the lights on and off through the night.

On Saturday I went out for a run, ran for an hour then realised I was lost and it took me another hour to find the hostel! After that we wandered down into the centre of Vienna and passed by the Soviet monument, which was very similar to the one in Berlin, before heading to St. Stephens Church. After climbing up to the top of it and seeing some remarkable views of Vienna we headed back to the hostel.

We got changed and went for an early tea as we were planning on heading to the Gerard-Hanappi Stadion in order to see if we could buy some tickets off of touts outside the ground for the Rapid Vienna - FC Schalke match. We managed to get two tickets for 20€ each and off into the stadium we went. The atmosphere was amazing, both sets of fans were jumping, chanting, setting off flairs, throwing beer glasses at players and officials, they even serve beer at the games...It was brilliant! The game finished 2-1 for Schalke which left the Rapid fans booing excessively at the referee at the end of the game as they felt a bit short changed to say the least!

Today we will probably just have a wander around Vienna before getting on the train to Venice tonight at 8.40pm. I'm really looking forward to Venice as it would be nice to get some sun, even though it is sunny here in Vienna, I imagine it is much hotter in Venice!

-Steven