Day 173-175 Vienna (Austria)

Lunch was good! 'No more KFC' -Says Meng Kiat



At 1300hrs, we went to a bicycle shop and rented 4 bikes.

Ready to tour the streets of Vienna

Destination #1- Schonbrunn Palace

Man... Jon looks ultra P.R.C Due to the Euro fever, there was a 'Soccer activity' right outside the palace entrance. Soccer 2 on 2 challenge, and the winning team gets 2 free entrance tickets into the palace. Unfortunately, we were grouped to play against each other.

Hailer + Mengkiat Vs PRC + Angus
Jon and I got thrash 4-0
To make sure 4 of us get into the palace at zero monetary cost, Meng Kiat and Joshua requested to play with the South Korean friends that were sitting around.
Watch the match

Thank you Joshua and Meng Kiat for your hard work. Look how much we saved!

I stood far away not because I am scared of Horses... but few seconds before the picture was taken, the horse bit my right arm, real hard! I have visited so many palaces in Europe that I feel almost everything look the same to me... nothing spectacular in my opinion
Yes... cycle and cycle till your bottoms tear apart

Match of the night- Turkey vs Croatia

The match was held right here in Vienna itself. We decided to cycle to the stadium to be in the 'atmosphere' of the Euro fever. And so we cycled...

And cycled....

Look at the signboard just below the '70miles/hr speed limit'
It reads 'Wien = Vienna' and a cross across the word..
Meaning we actually cycled out of the Vienna borders!!!!!

Finally... after many hours of hard work on the thunder thighs and calfs

Soak in the soccer atmosphere man!

Meng kiat says 'I can't believe we cycle all the way only to see the stadium and not the match'

One thing good about renting a bicycle. You get to travel through the 'heartlands' of the foreign land which might be inaccesible by foot or 'not worth a trip' by public transport


Shot dedicated to Janelle Mak. Do you happen to own this?

Its an irony. We cycled all the way to the main kick off ground. But at the end of the day, we land up watching the match at a 'Fan-zone' miles away from the stadium

Not only was there a big screen for you to watch the match. One of the main sponsors 'Nike' actually loan out soccer boots for fans to try out and test by participating in some of the games.

After a long day... it's still back to cycling

Our very late dinner at burger king (Man, we're broke)

Guess who won?

Time to rest our thunder thighs

Our very happy 'Forever friends' teddy bear (Toffee colour) Vienna is known to be 'The city of Music'
But looks like we experience it as 'The land of Soccer' instead...

Day 173 - 5 hours in Salzburg (Austria)

And so we were on the train down to Vienna (Austria)

On the journey map in the train, something interesting stirred up an interesting thought:
Muchen---> Salzberg (Austria) ---> Vienna (Austria)

Wouldn't it be nice to just drop by Salzberg for a few hours!???
It was famous for being known as home of 'The Sound of Music' and 'Mozart's home'

But 2 big CONCERNS surfaced

#1 Can we board another train later in the evening with the same ticket w/o $$ top-up
#2 Are there lockers at the train station to lock up our luggage while we travel Salzberg

The train that we were on stops over at Salzberg for 7 minutes before continuing the journey towards Vienna. In that 7 minutes, we have to get the answers to our 2 big CONCERNS

So this was the ultimatica plan within the 7 minutes

1. Hailer Chong to sprint to the train reception to check if we could board a later train to Vienna
2. Meng Kiat to fly to the information counter to ask if there are lockers available
3. Jonathan and I to stay behind to unload all our luggages


And the exciting operation gave birth to our 5-hr stopover at Salzberg (Austria)!!

Somehow, the landscape outside Salzberg train station resemble so much like Toa-payoh heartlands back home

Mozart University

And we saw some students queuing up for their entrance examination to this music school

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. Salzburg's "Old Town" with its world famous baroque architecture is one of the best-preserved city centres in the German-speaking world

Love the very 'Feeling' style of cafe

And boy, we tasted the sweetest and freshest strawberries around

Fortress Hohensalzburg- Castle on a hill




The City of Salzburg

The Beautiful beautiful Alps

Puppet show - Achmed 'I'll kill you!'

Shot dedicated to the torture-lovers George and Spy-Lau

The time has come to Cheong-Sua

And we entered a room full of medals, weapons and military stuff. So much so that Jonathan went 'If your Dad was here he'll just faint.. he might even break the glass and steal the things' Well, I think if he were to be here, we will definately miss our train to Vienna in the evening.

It took almost the full-effort of the MDC + Commando tag-team to carry this Iron-man looking shield

Hey guys... behave yourselves overseas ok..

Mozart's house


*Honored* I get to stand at the staircase inside Mozart's house!!

Yupz! And so that was our little tour to Salzberg within that short time. Super-thankful because the weather was so good. It would be a BIG pity if we spend 5 hours in the train instead

Back to our longest journey to Vienna





Totally Kong-ed out after the long train ride. Butt tear man
But our Best friend will always be around to provide the best food (Vienna KFC)

Once again, Hailer Chong and I headed for some Casino fun. But because our dressing was abit too 'La-sup' We were made to rent a coat for entry into some restricted areas.