This was one of the best trips during this semester, for sure. Although we had to get up at 5am :-(( it was definitely worth it. We arrived to Salzburg at 9:50 and started immediatelly our walking tour. Salzburg is not very large so we could reach any interesting point quite soon. I ´ ve been to Salzburg once with my parents but did not remember too much. Anyway this time I´ve seen everything again and even more I guess. We went to the Salzach river and Schloss Mirabell, we saw Mozart´s Geburtshaus in Getreidegasse and the Main Square, the Dom and then we climbed up to the Festung Hohensalzburg where we had a guided tour and visited the Marionettenmuseum. The weather was very nice and sunny and we saw the Alps around Salzburg from the top of the Tower. Then we went down with a funicular and had lunch in an Indian restaurant called Indigo. It was quite cheap and very good. Later we climbed up to the Kapuzinerkirche and saw the Fortress from the other side of the river. We had a hot chocolate and cake in a Café and then we walked back to the railway station. It was already dark so we ´ve seen Salzburg also shining at night. After the 3 hour journey by train we arrived to Wien Westbahnhof and went dancing to a club, just for a while. It was a great day.
Participants: me, Véro, Karolina, Láďa, Julien, Anja and Karol.
Hello, hello! Let me bring you the very first news from a calm and beautiful place in Rheinland called Bonn. When I arrived today it was cloudy but in the afternoon the sun came out and the weather was just great. The journey with Student Agency bus went without any problems as usual and I succesfuly found the place where I am living now. Brigitta, the owner of the house where I live, is very nice to me and so is her husband Albert. They are both self-employed and work from home. Albert is doing some data transfer operations for various firms. Their house is beautiful and has a great location and it is not far from the centre at all. Well, Bonn is really small as I found out today so nothing can be called as very distant here :-)), except for the long cycling routes along the Rhine. Speaking about cycling that´s a big phenomenon here like in the Netherlands. My host family has also a lot of bicycles and they already provided me wit
h one of them and I can borrow it anytime. So today I spent four hours in the afternoon with this bike and went to the centre and then along the Rhine and I crossed a big bridge that led me to the seat of T-Mobile where I start working on Monday. The so-called T-Mobile Campus looks really good. You can see it little bit from the enclosed picture. In the centre I went to a tourist office to get a map and then went through the main streets and squares filled with crowds of people and dozens of crowded cafés. I also saw Beethoven´s birth place but the house is nothing special. The city is small but the parks and green around Bonn are huge. I think it is a very nice place to live. Goodnight to you all and keep reading my blog :-). Hugs, Olinka.
