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| Hostel | Youth Hostel Brigittenau | Walk-In (avail confirmed online first) | $305.00 | 3 nights, includes breakfast | |||
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| Annnnnnd... the heat wave continues. Brent, Laura and I set out early this morning to check out the main Hbf (train \n\nstation) that we'll be traveling to tomorrow morning. Laura, the smart one, realized that tomorrow is Saturday, so we \n\nactually should be able to take our bikes on Metro regardless of rush hour, so we're planning on doing that rather than \n\nriding to the station. Then, Brent and I set out to the France Consulate where we received our first bit of official run-\n\naround. First of all, we went to the listed address, and were told we needed to go to a different place across town. So, \n\noff we went across town, but the only person at that office was a general info guy who told us that the visa office is \n\nferme, and we need to make our visa application from Canada (which, according to the internet which never lies, is not \n\nentirely accurate). This afternoon I wanted to go for a bike ride around Vienna with Gabi, but the heat wave, and \n\nadditional errands are preventing that. Two things I've known about myself for a while are that I get easily overwhelmed trying to ride in unfamiliar cities, and that I have a lousy sense of direction. These things haven't been any kind of real hindrance to me in my real life because I rarely have to deal with them. When I'm riding in an unfamiliar city (for example, when I moved to Edmonton), after the first few rides, it becomes familiar, and then I'm fine. With the sense of direction thing, I'm rarely by myself when a good sense of direction is important, and apparently I hang out with a lot of people who have a good sense of direction. On this trip, though, the constant novelty of where we are has really amplified these things and I now feel aware of them very frequently. I have finally gotten into the habit of staying firmly behind Brent when we're riding in an unfamiliar city, even though my natural tendency is to ride in front, and Brent's natural tendency is to *not* ride in front. From Brent: What can I say; it's still stinkin' hot in Europe. It cooled off for about 2 days after I wrote the last letter but now we are working on at least our 8th day in a row of temperatures in the high 30's. The predicted highs for the next 3 days are 37, 37 & 38. Not great cycling weather. Every evening we see clouds that look like thunderheads forming in the distance. We've all been hoping for rain to cool us off but so far it hasn't developed. The closest thing to rain was about 5 days ago in Sommerau. At night there were 5 or 6 flashes of lightning to the south but they were so far away that the thunder was undetectable. From Brent: I thought that I could talk a bit in this letter about some of the unusual things I've encountered in Europe. Nothing too outrageous, just things that that have struck me as being different from home. So, in no particular order:\n
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