Back from Wien...

Managed to come back in one piece from Austria... the land of everything Mozart and everything Strauss. My colleague and I came back home Saturday evening.

It was an eventful trip overall; one that's a little bit difficult to describe. See, more than it being a long holiday or a “crash course in infectious diseases”, this student exchange programme managed to serve as an interesting eye opener to a lot of things. The most you readers might be able to appreciate is the fact that a lot of sightseeing was done in our free time. Vienna is as beautiful as people say it is. And hearsay that Austria is a beautiful country is all so very, very true.

We visited Vienna to the point were we exhausted our monthly travel pass (the Monatskarte) and got nauseated at the sight of Mozart and his chocolates (more often referred to by their more coarse-sounding title "Mozart balls"). We also ventured a bit outside Vienna. And once upon a Tuesday, we even crossed Austrian borders by bus and went to Budapest (in Hungary).

I did attempt to update you all throughout these 4 weeks, especially when we had our rainy days (five in all - not bad. At least not as bad as England). But the free Internet access at the hospital (AKH) never allowed me to do that. And the little Internet time I had on my hands was spent with family and a couple of friends. Nevertheless... I DID check my blog a couple of times but never found comments attached to my previous post. On seeing that I just figured... my readers can wait. They’re most probably very busy enjoying summer! So, I never felt pressured to blog.

But now that I'm back home, with my summer job at McDonald's leaving me with very little to blog about, snippets of my lovely time in Wien might eventually emerge on this blog... sometimes through pictures and sometimes through wordy stories... It all depends on how encouraging I find your comments threaded to this post!