After a rather grueling amount of flying, we’re here in Austria! I’m taking advantage of my body’s confused circadian rhythm to write this at a nice 6:30 in the morning, having already been up for almost an hour.
We landed at about 8:30 in the morning what feels like a couple of weeks ago, but looking at my calendar was actually only a couple days ago. From the airport, we went by the hotel we’d be staying at to drop off our bags – the rooms wouldn’t be ready until later in the day – and then took Vienna’s impressive public transit system to the Austro-American Institute of Education for our initial orientation. Getting there was fun – it’s just a couple of trams away, but because Vienna is Vienna, there’s a lot of stuff to see on the way.
After the orientation, we wandered around a market for a bit to get lunch and then made our way back to the hotel. I took a bit of an unplanned nap, and then we were off to dinner at an Italian restaurant a short walk away.
The next morning we were up, bright and early, and off into a longer trek through Vienna’s public transit system. It’s an impressive system, with a lot of well-developed infrastructure. And then we were on the train to Dorfgastein, where I finally got my camera out and started taking pictures, because good lord, look at this.
