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Ok, I haven’t written in a little while, so I thought I’d talk about some things. Mainly, my and Andreas’ trip to Burgenland last weekend! Thursday was a holiday, so the two of us decided to take kind of an impromptu (and unscheduled) trip to Burgenland (the Eastern-most provice in Austria), but more specifically to Rechniz (the second-biggest town in Burgenland, about 3000 people strong). The idea was to go to a pension (hotel/b&b), eat at a buschenschank (traditional restaurant) and have a wine tasting (because it is right in wine country). Well, nothing worked out like we planned (ie. things sucked a bit more than we had anticipated), but we actually had a really great time anyway.
The short version: We hadn’t booked a room ahead
of time, and once we got there, discovered that there was
a big Hungarian festival (they share a border with Hungary) going on, and
every single room in the whole town was booked out for the weekend. So, we stopped by a cafe and mentioned it to some locals, and everyone just rallied around and made it their afternoon mission to find us a room! They didn’t have the
number of a woman who has the number of a hotel, so one lady called her
friend who was at the Hungarian festival down the street, and asked her
to look for the woman who has the number for the hotel in the next
town. All this while Andreas and I were just sitting on barstools drinking coffees… it was quite the sight.
So at last, someone called someone else, and we had a place to sleep (in an even smaller town but just down the road). I have to say though, that it was smelly small
room with 2 single beds that didn’t quite fit together (3 inches in
between), no soap, shampoo, or extra tp- but a really nice shower. Anyway, we went to a
Buschenshank for dinner and drank some really good wine (no wine tasting though- they kind of acted like they had never heard of it…). After
that we decided on a whim to take a look inside this bar called
"Disco Flamingo"- we thought we’d go in just for fun (it was 8:30), but ended up staying for many
cocktails, some dancing and a lot of pool and foosball. The average age there was around 17, but we had a great time hanging out together.
So now I thought I’d include some pictures of things that I’ve been up to otherwise (we forgot the camera when we went to Burgenland). Here you are.
Meet: Baby Mint, Baby Lavender, and Baby Dill
Meet: American baking products!!
Meet: My German book & kitchen sticky notes
