Vienesse Whirl

Made it to Vienna (or as it's known in Austria Wien) yesterday. But first I visited the site of the former concentration camp at Dachau which was the first the Nazis built and was used as a model for later camps. Was quite an affecting experience for obvious reasons...the conditions there were terrible. A serious lack of food whilst also being forced to do slave labour, serious overcrowding, mental and physical torture and killings make up for a horrific time if you were one of the unlucky ones to be sent there. Even being sent there you were lucky to be alive at the end after potentially a few days as human cattle on a train container with no food or water. Apparently the gas chamber at this site was never used but it looked terrible nonetheless. Worth visiting to get a glimpse of how terrible humans can be sometimes...

So after that I blasted down the motorway to here - would have preferred a more scenic route but I didn't have time for that unfortunately...not much to report on the journey except that they make excellent sandwiches in Western Europe - the service station fare here is so much better than the crap back home. I arrived here quite late so headed straight out, had a quite wander - it looks like this is going to be a beautiful city! Managed to find a nice restaurant with an outside table to had a dinner of sausages, potatoes and sauerkraut - very tasty!


After dinner I had a couple of pints in an Aussie bar to watch the Turkey v Czech Republic match - what a game! Turkey scoring 3 goals in the last 15 minutes to qualify for the quarter finals...amazing. But not as amazing as the absolute party on the streets afterwards - seems there's quite a bit turkish contingent here in Vienna who proceeded to drive around town in convoys, leaning out of windows and waving flags whilst sounding their horn and whooping like mad! Never seen anything like it, it was cool. ;-)

So - I have today in Vienna to explore and since I didn't get wasted last night I'm off out nice and early (9.20am)! Hoorah!

Now to get out and forage for some breakfast...