{"id":575,"date":"2007-12-29T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2007\/12\/29\/european-new-years-trip-day-1\/"},"modified":"2007-12-29T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T21:30:58","slug":"european-new-years-trip-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2007\/12\/european-new-years-trip-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"European New Year’s Trip: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"


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All pics are available at my Picasa webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Flight from Houston to London was outstanding. Transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow was in record time, and I hoped we might get on standby for the earlier flight to Vienna…but no such luck. In fact, our flight got delayed, so we didn’t get into Vienna until after nightfall…granted, that’s around 4:30, but still…. Saturday had magnificent breakfast at the Imperial, then wandered around the inner city for a while. Slight snafu in that hotel procured tickets for us for the New Year’s Eve concert and the opera on New Year’s Day, but we had already gotten ours from a ticket agent.<\/p>\n

Dinner was at Restaurant zum Kuckuck<\/a> (cuckoo), which has really great dishes from all around the former Monarchy.<\/p>\n

Was going to get a couple of SIM cards for the week from T-Mobile<\/a> (cheaper than A1<\/a> and much cheaper than one<\/a>, but when I got to the store in the Kohlmarkt they had already closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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