Interrail Europe

10.09.2006

so in the evening after I had written my blog yesterday Monika and me still stayed downstairs and played some UNO...was a lot of fun.
A handsome guy was sitting with his laptop on our table too! We found out later that he also sleeps in our room, but he has already left today. The same with the girl, she was from Austin, Texas. She is heading now to Germany. She is travelling alone and in Europe since July 17th..she will be staying till November and wants to see also Salzburg and Innsbruck! Yeah.
We went to bed around midnight.

11.09.2006

5th anniversary of Ground Zero!

In the morning around 10 o'clock we left for the ATOMIUM! It's really a visit worth. so huge, and you can go up to the top where you have a perfect view over Bruxelles! Took some pics I'll try to put online when I'm back. So far we have around 80 pictures.
After the Atomium we went to the European Parliament...it is soooooo huge! Big buildings made out of glass, and people speak all languages there, also German *lol* So we made that tour...we could take a walk into the building and the cool thing was you could watch the people, who work there, while the were walking from one meeting to another...like Big Brother! Then we were allowed to take a look at the big conference hall where the politicans discuss laws, etc. But after about 2 minutes we got kicked out because they forgot to tell the tourist guides that there was going on a "secret" meeting. As we would have understood it....ha ha. Well anyways the security was a little bit mad and the tourist guides were so sorry for us that we couldn't stay longer. But we were in there for 2 minutes, better than nothing, and it was for free!
After that we took the subway back to Bruxelles Centraal Station and walked back in the core of the town where we bought some belgium pralines...they were sooo yummy! 2 pieces cost me 1.35 Euro, but whatever hey when do I ever get the chance again. No, DAni I'm sorry. We wanted to take some chocolate with us home, but it is soo hot that it melts in a couple minutes! Sorry!!! I bought myself a Bruxelles shirt with the Manneqin Pins today. Looks good!
Oh and at the end before we went back to the hostel we bought a belgium waffle with strawberries, bananas and chocolate. Very yummy....if you ever get the chance to go to Bruxelles, eat WAFFLES!!!! Expensive, but yummy! Everywhere you go in Bruxelles you smell the waffles.
When I read my blog, I must say we are eating a lot here...ha ha...but I hadn't eaten breakfast today, I was still full from the day before.
We skipped Luxemburg, the girl from Austin and the boy from Birmingham told us, that in the core is not much to see, it is nice but it is better if you visit it by car, because on the outskirts is more to do!
That will be our last entry from really beautiful Bruxelles. Tomorrow we are leaving for Amsterdam.
Now I'm tired and I will go to bed soon. I guess I catched a cold, because I'm sneezing since the last couple ours and I have such a pressure on my eyes...f***!
Take care guys....love ya!

09.09.2006

we left St. Poelten on Saturday evening....the relatives were crying on the platform as our train left. ha ha ha NO, but they waved us goodbye and wished us a save trip!!!
After we found our seats, me little Eva forgot to take out her waterbottles as I put my backpack in the luggage thing (I don't know how it's called in English), and so it hit the lady next to me...ooops! but she survived....what a good start for us.
We didn't sleep a lot. It was very loud at the beginning in the train...some people were drinking too much beer and so you know what happens then..they get wild and crazy. he he he in Germany every time we stopped another person came into our compartment so we slept maybe 3 hours. Now we feel like we have partied for 3 days without going to bed!

10.09.2006

In Cologne we switched trains to Aachen. In Aachen we had to wait for our train to Bruxelles 2 hours so we bought some breakfast and enjoyed the beautiful sunny morning.

On the train to Bruxelles we played some UNO, Monika always won! The rest of the trainride we tried to catch some sleep...

The conductour or the guy who sold something to drink and eat thought we were Bavarians, because of our dialect. ha ha no bavarians, AUSTRIANS of course!!!!
So now we are here and it's soooooooo HOT!!!!!!!!!!! We were melting today, and also the belgium chocolate. We were walking a lot. We went to the Grand Place. There are a lot of old beautiful buildings, then we went into a lot of CHOCOLATE stores....yummy! Magda, you would love it there!!! It's like in Vienna with the H M stores, every couple metres another one. That's life! Then we walked to the palace of the queen and king where you can make tours, we didn't make one. instead we went to the beautiful park next to it and enjoyed the beautiful weather. After that we got some ice cream, really expensive, at Haagen Dasz. Mine was really good, Monika's not so.
By the way, Monika saw a naked man in the park...but the only problem was he was a statue....what a shit.
For all friends in Austria, I saw a guy with a Media Markt bag and you know what it said, "je ne suis pas fou" "ich bin doch nicht bloed" auf franzoesisch....ha ha ha! This slogan is everywhere, aah!

We've already learned some more vocabulary and talked already a couple times in french. So here our new vocabulary,
sirop d'erable means maple sirup / Ahornsirup
gant means glove / handschuh
we are pretty good...till yet everyone has understood us. Yeah!!!
By accident we also saw Mannekin Pis! He is the mascott of Bruxelles...a little boy pees. we even took a picture with our face in it....he he he
Our hostel is very nice, very colourful. They had to change our booking to an 8 room as there was no 6 or 4 room available. But that's okay, we are anyways only 2 days here. The roommates we met so far are very nice. there is a guy from birmingham who travels alone and a girl I have just seen for a minute, but she seems really nice.
now we are smelling food, because everybody is cooking dinner in the hostel kitchen...yummy
Tomorrow we wanna go to the Atomium, that costs 9 euro and maybe make a tour through the EU Parliament, that's free of charge, so that's cool. for luxembourg we don't know if we will have enough time then. let's see.
I guess that's it for now...we took already over 50 pictures! we can't upload them right now, but we will put them in the blog when we are back in Austria.
we hope you are all doing well, he he and have fun at work! WE enjoy our trip and the perfect hot weather....you can contact us if you leave a comment at our blog, or email us, sometimes we will check our emails too.
so take care...