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| Hanging out with my friend Gandhi |
This
week we continued travelling and ventured further afield to Vienna and Prague. While
our workload here is not as heavy as it would be if we were at home this
semester we are still extremely busy most of the time. Having to get up at
5.30am two mornings in a row each week is more than enough for me, so we were
very glad to have some time without class or school which we could just spend
relaxing and having some well earned lie ins. One of our Erasmus friends is
from Vienna and although she did provide us with a map and information about
all museums, we decided to have a slightly less cultural visit, and began with a
trip to Madame Tussauds and a theme park! Visiting this German speaking country
allowed me some more time to try and use my rusty German skills. The longer I
am on Erasmus the more I am finding myself growing in confidence when it comes
to trying to speak with people such as shop assistants in their own language,
regardless of how bad I sound while trying to speak it.
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| At the opera! |
One
our second last night we went to the Opera as we had been told that no visit to
Vienna is complete without this. Although this is something I would not usually
be interested in, I did enjoy it and thought it was a worthwhile experience,
particularly as it is something I may never do again. We decided to spend our
last day in Vienna visiting Schönbrunn Palace, which was once a royal palace but
is now the property of the Austrian Republic and is open to the public as a
museum. The whole complex includes a zoo which claims to be the oldest one in
the world, a maze, a palm house and a sundial house as well as extensive
gardens. This was a lovely end to the Vienna part of the trip, before we
boarded our overnight sleeper train to bring us to Prague. This was a
very nice place to visit, but I definitely didn’t think it compared to either
Krakow or Vienna. We found the old town to be very similar to many of the old
towns in cities in Poland such as Poznan, Krakow or Warsaw and so enjoyed
spending time there, but apart from that we didn’t find the city to be as
enjoyable as others we have been to. Nevertheless, we did enjoy our time there
and found the few days we had flew by before it was time for our ten hour train
journey back to Poznan and back to reality.
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| Enjoying some local food |
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| Schönbrunn Palace
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