Ohh Vienna.... Again!

So once more we find our selves visiting with Deb's Cousin (Jodi) and her two boys in Vienna. On our last European trip we took an airplane flight from Munich to Vienna in late Oct-2011 to visit, but this time was different as we could arrive on our motorbike like true Overland Travelers.

We had planned to arrive to meet Jodi at her house at 19:00. We arrived at 18:45 and rung the bell and she excitedly let us in. After we unpacked the bike and covered it for it's few days stay on the street. We went up and re-introduced ourselves to her 2 young boys (David and Dylan).

Our plan was simply, we wanted to visit the Natural History Museum we missed last time, I wanted to change the engine oil, and we waned to meet Jodi's new 'man' in her life. Also I wanted to buy another pair of trousers, as only one pair makes washing some what interesting with me in my 'Boxers'!!

Warning, We have hi-speed internet so I uploaded lots'a photos...

Natural History Museum Visit.

At the entrance of the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria

Rocks!

more rocks....

Treasures

Steve, very impressed with the large metallic meteorites

The atmospheric flight path was one sided - as this metallic meteorite did not roll on earth entry.

Special metallic metor flew with only one side into the earth atmosphere.

Moon Rock

Me have the whole moon in our hands ....

Solar system, the beginning.

for Chantelle, Plant and mammal cells.

Peace Man

yeah, lot'sa cabinets

So many varieties of shells

fossels

Terror Bird

Watch out the Pterodactyl will be after you!

Danger Allasorus

This Mammoth is huge!

Woolie Rhino

Early man, the eyes look so real

Ice age hunter

The magnificent decorations on the ceiling of the museum

Colorful assortment of beetles

Massive Turtles, they look so cute, but very dead ...

An amazing collection of birds

Penguins

Food, we were invited to an 80th birthday party on Friday night, a couple had their combined 40th birthday party.

Meal for 3!

So whilst here I 'helped' out with fixing a few things. Which mostly worked out well. Jodie's internet router was not working, as the power supply was dead from an electrical storm.

So I fixed this with another multi unit we bought. this was easy to fix. Next was the laundry washing machine, it was. But in the process I managed to de-pressurize the hot water service. This caused me to scratch my head a bit trying to figure out which valve was used to get water back in! In the end Jodie called in her Boyfriends Dad, who also scratched his head. But with the user manual (via the internet) we worked it out and were able to have hot showers once more.

Maps out for Croatia , Slovenia & Italy.

Deb Blogging.

Jodi's house of pain!

Eating again! Pancake soup!!

After Dinner Brandy.

So our plans are to head south into Slovenia and then into Croatia. Out to the islands along the Adriatic coast. ending up at Dubrovnik. Before head back up to Split to cross over to Italy on the evening of 3rd Oct. We have another small rally /ride event up near Kolon on the 13th Oct. Then we will return and strip clean the bike with a plan to get it imported at some stage.

Google earth GPS Track of Prauge to Vienna.

Cheers,
Stephen and Debbie.