I have no idea what I actually did these last days, but I know that I´m dead tired. All this sightseeing and the really cold weather have really got to me.

On Thursday Jen, Stefan and I went around the city centre and I couldn´t help staring at those incredibly beautiful buldings! They were like WOW! And all Vienna is like that! Wherever you look you see only that kind of beautiful imperial architecture. You cannot not fall in love with such a bohemian city. I thought Athens was packed with tourists – well, I think I was wrong. The centre of Vienna is absolutely FULL with them. I don´t know how the poor Viennese cope with this. I think I would be really pissed having to live in such a touristic city. To cut the story short, I go to see the main buildings around there, bought a map, walked here and there and went back home.

In the evening we went to the Teitur concert, which really rocked. They were so so good! And the Austrian public was so civilised: no drunk people, nobody pushing you or getting in front of you. Yeah, it was a laid-back concert. And, cause the world is such a bloody small place, we sat next to a girl from the Faroe Island who knew the guys in the band. Pretty cool! I have a Teitur canvas bag that I´m really proud of, a little souvenir from a really good concert.

Friday was museums day. First stop: Albertina. I had to stay at this enormous queue and I thought I was never going to make it inside, but the staff from the Albertina was really well prepared for situations like that and I made it inside after only half an hour. The Van Gogh exibition was the main attraction and that´s why there were so many people wanting to visit the museum out of the sudden. But the waiting was worth it: I chatted with a nice Austrian couple, though I was lazy and spoke in English and then I got to see so many paintings by Van Gogh that I hadn´t known before and found really nice. Very different was the Contemporary Art Exhibition. I think I enjoyed it more than the Van Gogh one The artists I found most interesting are: Elke Krystufek, Franz Zadrazil and Gunter Damisch.

Next in line was Leopold Museum from the MuseumsQuartier. Schiele, Klimt and Schad under the same roof – for me that mean cultural orgasm! Well, in fact, for the majority of Klimt´s paintings I have to go to Belvedere Palace, which I´m going to do on Monday. Anyways, that museum is definitely a must see. I´ve got shivers going down my spine when I remeber how it felt being there The other 2 museums – MuMoK and another one whose name I forgot, were really boring in comparison to Leopold. So, yeah, if you go to Vienna and have time for only one museum, that should be Leopold

Visiting the museums took me all day – from about 12 till 5 and a half, and then I had to rush to Stefan´s, pack some clothes and move to Marianne´s. Stefan´s instructions were pretty clear and I didn´t have problems finding the house I was supposed to arrive at. Well, I know it´s not a big deal, but I´m really proud of myself whenever I manage to get from point A to point B without having to ask for directions along the way and without going in circles or in the wrong direction. So when I found myself in front of Marianne´s block I was damn happy and proud

Her parents are incredibly nice and they cooked without meat specially for me. And, believe it or not, I actually spoke in German with them. Of course, I stopped and looked at Marianne when I didn´t know the words or I just said them in English, but it´s the first time in my entire life that I´ve spoken German outside school. It´s damn hard to find the right words, but I think that with a bit of practice, I could actually have a normal, simple conversation with a native. Trust me, that would be a really big thing for me.

We went to Pia´s and I met a lot of crazy Austrians there Man, they talk soooo fast, couldn´t understand much of their conversation. But I enjoyed their company and was happy to see redhair Pia again *I so wish I had her hair colour!!!* They went to a club, but 3 of us decided to go to a bar instead. So we talked both in English and in German, drank good Austrian beer and had a very peacefully and happy night – a prologue to a very nice Wochenende