.Even though it was still a bit cloudy the views of the city were spectacular. There's a wax works up there too and I ran into and old friend
.At the end of the day it was off to the airport to catch the overnight flight home. It's great to be home with the Jackyboy
so we can start planning our next trip..
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and I poped in to meet some of the locals.
before
after. Wel at least it was easy to get to sleep! 
Even though we were a couple of months early for the big wine festival we did find a cellar that was open 
and sampled some of their wares. Being a stuffed bear and therefore having no digestive tract to speak of I had to immerse my whole body into the barrel. There was a nice statue in the town square where I could dry out. 
. There were other travellers from Africa in the area too. 
where the backgound music of Aker Bilk, Wayne Newton etc had us all singing along.
Prague what a city! The number of tourists! The Beer! The Absinthe! The totally undecipherable Czech language! It's a Ted town if ever I saw one!
Steve's driving along the autostrada from Budapest to Vienna was exemplary, but Sue's navigation into the heart of the Hapsburg Empire was a little difficult to follow (ie we didn't know where we were on the maps so it was a little difficult to find the place we wanted to reach). Steve, being a male refused to ask for directions, but Sue had a very informative conversation with a Pizza shop owner somewhere in Vienna that got us back on track. What can I say about our accomodation at the Hotel Franz Pension except that they must be Teds. Turn of the century furnishings and fittings (the 19th century I mean) that are all hanging together by a thread (a window in our room fell off when Steve tried to open it) but fantastic location right next to the Votiv Cathedral and the Ring Strasses so getting about was easy as jumping on the No1 or No2 tram (depending if you wanted to go clockwise or counterclockwise around the ring). By the end of the first afternoon we had walked past the Rathaus and Hofburg Theatre, through the Hapsburg Palace and over and through the Stephans Kirche and still had time for a stop off at a fashionable cafe where the best strawberrys in the empire are carressed and coddled into milkshakes from heaven (really they were that good, and for 5.70Eur a shot it would want to be).
. We had a great couple of days in Prague with the charming Monika selflessly acting as tour guide (what is such a nice girl doing hanging out with Normie?) (Only joking Norm we know your just a big Ted at heart!)
Look out for updates in Vienna and Prague too.
We also stopped in for a look at Szent Istvan Bacilica. I was hoping to get a photo of me shaking the 1000year old preserved right hand of Szent Istvan they keep there, but we couldn't find the keys to the glass case. We're off to the zoo today, plenty of photo-ops there for sure!
I couldn’t convince the staff at the Louvre that a photo of me with the Mona Lisa would be funny, but I did manage to sniff the butt of a statue just outside.