Frank and Robyn Visit the Land of Ice and Snow: January 2018

London revisited

Today we say Goodbye Vienna and fly off to London. Everything goes swimmingly until we reach customs at Heathrow and are trapped behind a snake of bogan Australians for an hour. Getting to our hotel in Terminal 4 is somewhat of a nightmare involving a prolonged train trip. We are staying tonight in the Yotel and I'm so glad I didn't bring a cat as there would be no room to swing it!

We then meet up with Claire and Eric and I am reunited with the pleasures of English ales.

We then dine at the Clock Tower restaurant in the hamlet of Ripley-another Michelin star under our belts(which have been mysteriously shrinking since being on holiday).

So tomorrow we fly home so this will be my last entry. I would like thank all those thousands who have given me support during this most trying period of my existence and for all those who have donated in a more currency based manner in order to keep me out of Australia for as long as possible.

Auf wiedersehen Frank and Robyn

Catching up with rels and repasts

This morning we find the Leopold Museum open and we wander through the Egon Schiele exhibition-we like his stuff a lot though it may not be to everybody's taste.

After lunch we make our way down to the banks of the Danube canal and meet a new relative-the cousin of my cousin-as they say: any cousin of my cousin is my cousin(old Viennese proverb).
The restaurant we chose has stunning views of Vienna

and the food was fine as well. Cousin Hanna had many fascinating anecdotes about life in Vienna during WW2.
After lunch we went for lunch at Treszniewski

following which we had lunch at the Viennese sausage stand(here they are called sausage stands)

following which we went to the Hotel Sacher for coffee and sacher torte.

In the evening we see Don Giovanni at Vienna opera

after which we revisit a sausage stand.

A new beginning!

So dear followers you can be much relieved as your blogger is back on the road to good health and appetite.So we visit the Masch Markt to see what is on offer.

Purple cheese shop

Today we go to visit my grandmother and polish her up; during the process we are accosted by 2 of her neighbours who very kindly invite us into their apartment for tea and bikkies.

They even named their piano after us

Herbert, Brigitte and unknown female

We then walk to the Leopold Museum only to discover that it is closed on Tuesdays-classic! So instead we visit the Haus Der Music a sort of quasi Viennese interactive music museum, which turned out to be a lot of fun.

Strauss and his muse

This evening we have a reservation at the very classy Steirereck restaurant where we have a most wonderful meal and I manage to only partially regain some BMI units.