Overnight Train & the Sound of Music

We took our first over night train experience. Ben feasey, this would be your dream hotel. At 10pm we got on the train at Krakow to a tiny little room with bunk beds. They were rock hard and the pillow you wouldn't even have made your dog sleep on. At 630 am we arrived in vienna with little to none sleep because our room was basically a sauna. We headed straight to Wombats City Hostel, and luckily because no one stayed in our room the night before, we could check in right away. We went and got showered then walked down to the tiergarten. This is the worlds oldest zoo, and Its located on the palace grounds of vienna. It was really big, very clean and plenty of animals. We were there before it even opened, so when we got inside, there was barely anyone there yet. We were able to sit down next to the orangutan enclosure for a while with no interruptions and all of them just sat on the other side facing us. It was a really cool interaction. Matt and I for some reason seem to go into every zoo we pass, so it only seemed fair to go to the worlds oldest, and it was probably one of the best we've been to.

As the budgets a bit tight, I made pasta for dinner with some veggies in the hostel kitchen, it was delicious if I do say so myself. We managed to skype both of my parents as well which was nice. Matt hasn't been feeling very well the past few days, so in the morning we ended up just going straight to Salzburg. We had planned on stopping over in Linz to go to the Ars Electronica Center, basically a hi tech museum. It was only about a 5 hour train from Vienna to Salzburg.

 We checked in at the Yoho International Youth hostel and with matt not feeling very well, stayed in for the rest of the night. I did some laundry and watched the sound of music. I have been collecting post cards from everywhere and have got myself up to 15 of them that I haven't actually posted yet, so I did that in the hostel. The next morning we did what we had come to Austria for. The sound of music segway tour. It was two hours long and we saw the house from the movie, which is now part of the university;  the square with the horse fountain; the convent & the gazebo that the oldest daughter sang '16 going on 17' in. We also saw the smallest house in Austria and Mozarts birthplace. The tour was supposed to be based on the sound of music but the tour guide had only seen the film once and knew less about it than me so I was really disappointed,  however it was still a fun morning and we did get to see some of the places. Austria is a bit more on the expensive side, however it is beautiful and it would have been nice to have a bit more time here. Now we are off to Lake Bled in Slovenia.