Sorry no blog last night, we had to go to the kitchen to get wifi, which was in another building, plus we got distracted by an awful German movie. We're in Munich now. It was raining rather steadily when we got here, not so fun considering we were walking to our hostel. We made it here however, wet but not soaked. The hostel is ok, the receptionist isn't the friendliest though. Also when we walked into out room my heart sank. We haven't meet our room mates yet but I already dislike them. There is, well stuff everywhere. It looks like their bags exploded. There are also mostly empty bottles of spirits and mixers all over the floor. And just to top it all off a condom wrapper under my bed, always comforting. It will be an interesting night I'm sure. The first time I've been glad we're changing rooms tomorrow.
Back to yesterday, in Vienna. I had to stop and think before as to where we'd come from. We had a good day yesterday. In the morning we went to the Kunsthaus which is the museum of Hundtwasser. He's the guy that did the toilets up north, you know the pretty mosaic ones. We almost got lost on our way there because we were wandering along obere..whatever it was, instead of unter. We found it eventually though. It was hard to miss once you got near it. I loved it, in large part because I felt quite affectionate towards the artist because he loved NZ so much. Out the front of the museum was the flag that he designed for NZ. There was also a documentary made by telecom showing in one room, which made me homesick with the sounds of tuis, and then made me laugh when the old school telecom logo flashed across the screen. It wasn't long before Soph and I were wandering around saying 'I want that one'. Over and over again. We also enjoyed an apple strudel in the cafe there as our cultural eating experience.
In the afternoon we went to the zoo. Yeup the zoo. And yes I am 22. It was great, really good to do something different. We got to see pandas. Well one, and only the back of his head, he wasn't so keen on turning around. We also saw the elephants get feed, while listening to a talk about them in German from a stereotypical zoo keeper, and watching a very unstereotypical zoo keeper check the feet and ears etc of one of the elephants. Best of all there was a baby olephant. Very cute, I have tons of photos.
Heres where the 320 kg fatty comes in. We wandered over to the sealion enclosure and incidently came across the feeding there as well. We were standing down right in front of the enclosure so we could get a look through the glass. The guy was feeding them fish, and then threw one for the big daddy sealion to catch. He landed with a splash, showering all the people in the front with water. We were lucky because we'd moved to the side just on the stairs. Then the zoo keeper moved and threw the fish in another direction. The 320 kilo sealion hit the water causing such a splash we got severly splashed, the biggest problem of which was that I had my camera out in front of me taking pictures at the time. It's ok though thank god. With the 31 degree temperatures we dried out pretty quickly. Yea it was 31 degrees yesterday. So very hot. I reckon its dropped around 15 degrees to now though, silly Europe.
We also got to see yesterday an Arctic wolf, an ant eater, a polar bear, a spectaculed bear (though only the back of him), a siberian tiger, and squirrels. The squirrels were particularly cool because they weren't in a cage so when we stopped and remained still for a minute or two they started hopping around like crazy, and came right up to us. I was furiously trying to step back and unzoom my camera to get a photo.
So that was Vienna. I enjoyed the things we did there, but I didn't love Vienna as a city. The rest of Austria as seen from the train and the bus however I have really loved. It's going near the top of my list of places to come back to. In particular a little town we stopped to drop people in today called Gruneau.
I'm hoping this rain clears, it wouldn't be fun to meander around town in the rain, but the online reports don't look good, they say its getting heavier tomorrow.
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