Last Night in Europe
From Salzburg, we took the 5:50 pm OBB train and got to Vienna at around 9:30p.m., our last night in Europe. Dan In n Out, centrally located in the city of Vienna, off the Ring Blvd, was the pension that my husband booked through the internet. The Pension is an European thing; it is a basic no frill hotel room located in an office building. When we got to the building, it was all dark and it did not look like a motel or hotel as we expected in North America. We thought might be we had been taken for ride by the internet booking.
We rang the door bell and after about ten minutes when we were about to leave, someone finally came to answer the intercom and told us to just go up via the elevator. We took the tiny elevator to the floor where the pension was located and were met by a gentleman who handed us the key to our room. He explained to us what the pension was and said that there would be nobody at the reception desk but breakfast would be served in the morning. Since our flight was leaving at 6:30a.m. We asked the gentleman from the pension to call a cab for us for 4:30a.m.
We rang the door bell and after about ten minutes when we were about to leave, someone finally came to answer the intercom and told us to just go up via the elevator. We took the tiny elevator to the floor where the pension was located and were met by a gentleman who handed us the key to our room. He explained to us what the pension was and said that there would be nobody at the reception desk but breakfast would be served in the morning. Since our flight was leaving at 6:30a.m. We asked the gentleman from the pension to call a cab for us for 4:30a.m.
The room at the pension was O.K. but it was at a very central location in Vienna. However, we were not able to take advantage of this excellent location as we would be leaving in a few hours. I wished we had booked this place when we first landed in Vienna so that we could have walked around the city much easier.
We had a very enjoyable trip in Europe for the past few weeks and now it was time to leave this beautiful continent. Feeling a little sad, I busied myself packing our luggage and dared not to fall asleep lest that we should miss our flight.
The taxi was at our pension right on time taking us to the airport. The cab fare was at a fixed rate of 50 Euro, not bad.
We were at the airport so early that nothing was open, neither shops nor restaurants. We got a little snack and boarded our plane to London for our North American flight home. There was a stopover at the Heathrow Airport for a couple of hours, barely enough time for us to pore over some of the mountainous volume of Olympics souvenirs. There were lots of shops at the airport and we bought a couple boxes of chocloate for friends back home.
Good Bye, Europe, thank you for a lovely time! We have fallen in love hopelessly with Italy and a few other places therefore we hope to be back again soon!
R.T.
Aug. 2012
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