First Off - sorry to everyone who wants to see our photos. We forgot to bring the cord for the camera so cant' download any. Opps.

Second - is Australia feeling empty? Cause there might not be any Kangaroos in Austria but there sure where a hell of a lot of Australians. We're bloody everywhere.

Poor Austria had the unfortunate luck of being the first stop after Swtizerland. Which made Innsbruck down right dissapointing. It was no compention. Switzerland won hands down.

It took a few days, but by Saltzburg Austria was holding it's own against Switzerland. Even though Duncan refused to watch the Sound of Music as it played for the 20th time in hostel, and wasn't impressed when I suggsted dressing up in the curtains from our room and skipping through the streets, I still managed to see a few sites from that famous movie.

Probably Austia can be summed up by our culinary expereince in Vienna. After a long morning of exploring the streets of the Old Town we saught refuge from the rain in a restaurant we'd heard did the best Schnitzel in Town. We opened the door on a non descript building in a dnn descript part of town and squinting through the fug of cigaret smoke made out some old wooden booths and tables full of locals smoking, eating and drinking. Looked pretty dodgy but it was raining, we were hungary so we stepped inside. Skip forward 30mins, our eyes had adjusted to the smokey atmosphere and stopped watering and stinging and we were presented with two of the biggest Schnitzles we've ever seen. I'm talking the size of a dinner plate and about 3/4 inch thick. I ordered the Hamburger Schnitzel, which was not one but two of these babies..........

23 hours late at 11am the next day we were hungry again!

Next stop was Hungary (ha ha ha), Budapest. It was a quick trip and Budapest has made it to the list of cities to return to. First lesson learned was that there is actually a Buda side and a Pest side to the city, seperated by the river. I belive these were originally 2 seperate cities. Useless information but interesting none the less.

There are some fairly dodgy parts, and the people look a little scary but it was an amazing place. Great Architecture and nice parks. The highlight was the Turkish Baths for which Budapest is famour for. We spent the afternoon soaking in various pools of water ranging for about 20 degrees to 38 degress in tempreture. The whirl pool was my favorite - I jumped in for a spin around, tried to get out, and went around again, and again, and again....... The current was so strong I kept getting sucked past the steps! Eventually between the fits of laughter I managed to crawl out and sink into some funky smelling mineral pool which made me feel really heavy but felt kinda nice!

It was all very relaxing, but also flattering, turns out Hungarians aren't the slimest or best looking people in Europe (and there was way too muhc high panting spedo action)- spend a few hours lying around with them in your bathers and you start to feel pretty fit and good looking! Mind you had we spent too much longer there eating their local food we probalby would have blended in pretty well!