vienna

Vienna brings to mind according to your era either 'the third man' (film) or ultravox (pop group). For us it will be the memory of the most chaotic booking -in procedure we have come across, dubrovnik only running it a close second ! Find your pitch she said sweetly and then come and tell me the number. So we did and when i got back to her, computer said no, already booked ! So off i went to tell lou who, very grumpily, unplugged the electric and moved to another place. Back i went and waited behind another couple who, of course, had just taken it ! So off i went again with the bad news and, again, we moved. This time we were on ! But the girl had put the wrong row name on the sheet we had to display in the windscreen. Fearful of someone coming back from a good dinner and waking us up because we were on their patch i went back and made her change it. We still got woken up by the rain that hammered on the roof all night ! But at least we could now have that 'pleased to have arrived'drink !

The good news was that the drinks were cheap and the wifi free. We loaded up the blog and got into conversation with a young chap who came to plug in his computer at the same table. We had noticed a brightly coloured van with nz on the back and, yes, they were kiwis and he'd been travelling for two weeks, his friends for two months. They were still asleep this morning so it was a brief encounter but lou got a photo of the van for kerrie !

We had hoped to arrive earlier at vienna but heavy rain, roadworks by the score and an accident that stopped everything for half an hour worked against us. Plus the gps took us up a dead end to an equestrian centre somewhere on the outskirts. We decided 'he' can't do co-ordinates so gave him the address which he could manage. The experience was all too much for us so we've decided that vienna may be a nono on the way back. Too frustrating finding a pitch and squashed again as in munich. So perhaps salzberg ?

Off to budapest next...