Adventures in Vienna - Day 1

Our intrepid adventurers leaving today (or rather yesterday with the time difference), from Denver International Airport. This will be the last we see of each other for roughly 36 hours......

David and Sally's flight to Vienna was cancelled, due to a trifling technical issue such as an engine falling off or some such thing, so we worked with Luftansa to get re-routed and spent the entire night waiting for flights in Toronto and Frankfurt, eating plastic airline food and finally arriving at our hotel about 4pm instead of 8am. Ray and Shirley had cellphone problems, a flight with reservations (but no assigned seats), and a bloodthirsty cabbie accidentally whacking Ray on the head (and drawing blood) with his trunk lid, but still managing to beat David and Sally to the hotel by a wide margin. Our rooms at the K&TBoardinghouse2, Vienna - clean, simple and ideally located next to the subway stop.

On the recommendation of our hostess Tina we tried a local specialty - Weiner Schnitzel - monster portions of breaded and fried veal cutlet goodness. Tender on the inside, crispy on the outside, no calories or fat grams and paired with local beer, wine or a tasty lemon/ginger soda and and a side of potato salad we washed to taste of airline food quite away.

After ingesting all that food, jetlag set in with a vengeance and we barely made it back to our hotel before collapsing in a food coma. Tomorrow we meet our local personal guide for a walking tour of the old city center (and likely sampling more Viennese delicacies).