Money Poll

So, it's official, I am broke. And due to the swine flu (soon to be) pandemic, I have decided against traveling to Barcelona, and I won't be going to Italy due to a difficult teacher and an exam date. I don't have much traveling left, which is good for not having any money; however, not so good for people interested in seeing what I'm up to. I've got a bunch of blogs still left to post, but I'll wait til I close the poll before posting again.



This afternoon, I extracted 100 Euros, or excatly $132.54, excluding the fee. I'm hoping this will last me as long as humanly possible. I'd like to know how long you think it'll last...


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I'm really trying to actually budget myself, but obviously 100 euros doesn't go too far. To be fair, I do have probably about 5 days worth of food, which is what I spent my last amount of money on today before visiting the ATM. Anyways, I'll update regularly with the amount of money I spent to keep you up-to-date. I hope you all find this as entertaining as I do, well hopefully more, as I'm the one who's broke. And don't feel pity because I find it terribly funny and I'll obviously be fine. This was actually a post that I've been most excited about.

Salzburg

Dates: April 6 – April 7








Bavarian Mountains:


Tunnels used by the Nazis:



After getting back in from Nice on Sunday night, we went to Salzburg by train on Monday afternoon. After arriving, we ventured across the river to the old city area, which was filled with shops and vendors. Since we got into Salzburg a little late in the evening we didn’t have too much time for other events.

The following morning, we got up early for a tour of the Bavarian salt mines (in nearby Germany). The countryside was really beautiful. We traveled by a small bus around the area and stopped in a few other small towns. One of our stops took us to the Crow’s Nest and Hitler’s residence for part of the time during World War II. Everything that was left of his house was destroyed at the end and after the war. However, the Crow’s Nest is still there, but is only accessible during specific summer months because of the steep climb.

The Salt mines were something quite spectacular, with underground lakes and tunnels stretching every which way miles underneath the ground. Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to bring my big camera into the mines so I have no pictures of it, but I may be going back with friends in a few weeks. Another problem I had was registering for classes took place in the afternoon so I wasn’t able to go on the Sound of Music tour with Nora and Earl; however, this is something I’m hoping to do if I get the chance to go back.

We left on a train late on Tuesday night, only to be waking up the following morning to head back to the airport.


More Salzburg Pictures

The French Riviera & Monaco

Date: April 1 - April 5



For these days I stayed in Nice, France with my mom and Earl and absolutely loved the area. The weather was a little crappy on the first day and our flight was delayed for hours so that wasn't the best way to start. However, the second day we were there the weather was much better, and we actually rented a car to drive around the area. We headed north from Nice to travel around the countryside and then came back down through Antibes, Juan-les-Pins (my favorite probably because it wasn't terribly over popularized) and Cannes. It was warm and sunny, not too hot and was a welcome change from the semi-chilly Vienna.

The following day we took an all day tour through a tour agency that took us all around the French Riviera. We went through some of the same towns but it also took us:

along the coast to the east of Nice which was beautiful



to Eze



Monaco



Monte Carlo



Antibes



We also visited this really cool, really old town perched on a hill near the area of Nice. I don't remember the name of it, but the pictures of it are at the end of the webshots album.

More Pictures

Matt Visits Vienna

Date: March 24th - March 29th

I'm posting the dates on the next few posts because they are so old and should have been done a while ago.







Matt and his friend, Ben, came to visit Vienna for almost a week, and quickly realized, as most would, there isn't that much to do in Vienna. After about two days of extensive walking they'd probably seen most of what Vienna had to offer. I was busy with class during the week he was here, but was off once the weekend finally came.

On Friday I took my last class and then we headed up to the hills that surround Vienna. Up there we walked around for a bit, enjoying the panorama of the city. Eventually we headed down and went to a heuriger, which is a restaurant that serves wine it has recently made from its nearby vineyard. Usually the food is from nearby farms as well.

Oh and another funny thing, there's a garbage incinerator by my university here... it's not all that different from Rutland High School, I just traded up from a dump to an incinerator. haha