Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Germany & Austria Trip


Before check-out from the hostel, we try rock-climbing at the outdoor playground. The climbing mountain school is located inside the hostel.



Driving from Graz to Vienna, we decide to visit a historic small town, Rust, of which almost every house has a stork nest on top of the chimney.



Nice decorated corner.




The decoration on the brightly coloured Baroque and Renaissance facades give the town its unmistakable character. It is a recommended town to visit if you happen to be around that area. For a wine lover, Rust has 500 hectares of vineyards at one of the warmest points in Europe offer not only optimum conditions for the Rust trilogy (dry white wines, full-bodied red wines and mature-sweet wines).



We also stop at another small village, colorful houses with thatch roof.

Our main point for this indirect route from Graz to Vienna is to stop at the outlet mall near Parndorf. The outlet is fine but with the current foreign currency exchange rate, shopping in Europe is a high-price experience that I can’t afford at the moment. Otherwise I might have to depend on the Euro 1 Chicken-Mc Donald-burger promotion for the rest of the trip. So we all don’t do that much shopping.

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