Day 26
I met this really nice girl named Sarah at the Oper last night. Lisa was really tired and didn't think she could make it through the second act,she left so Sarah came and took her place. We went to go see Don Giovanni, which is actually in Italian, although it was written by Mozart, it was good.
Standing tickets at the opera are brutal, because people fight to get a good seat. It is quite sad actually. Although I shouldn't talk as I was pushing alot myself. It is a necessary evil because I am short, and I won't be able see if I am not in the front row. The view I got wasn't all that great though, part of the stage was obscured. But it was better than nothing.
It looks like I am going to be a taking the train to Paris, since flights are just too expensive. It is like 140€ to go by train, which is really expensive, but what can you do right? Plane tickets were well over 200€ with taxes and such. There are seat sales to Paris, but they don't start until February. So there goes that brillant plan, oh well.
I think Wanda and Helga will want me to take the night train, but I don't feel safe, plus the way I figure it if I am going to pay to take a train through Germany I am bloody well going to see Germany, although it leaves at like 8 in the morning and doesn't arrive until 10 at night. If I took the day train I would have to change in Munich. (I will have to check on the length of time in Munich) Wanda's concern was not having people going to pick me up late at night.
Although it doesn't seem far, Paris is over 1000km away from Vienna.
Standing tickets at the opera are brutal, because people fight to get a good seat. It is quite sad actually. Although I shouldn't talk as I was pushing alot myself. It is a necessary evil because I am short, and I won't be able see if I am not in the front row. The view I got wasn't all that great though, part of the stage was obscured. But it was better than nothing.
It looks like I am going to be a taking the train to Paris, since flights are just too expensive. It is like 140€ to go by train, which is really expensive, but what can you do right? Plane tickets were well over 200€ with taxes and such. There are seat sales to Paris, but they don't start until February. So there goes that brillant plan, oh well.
I think Wanda and Helga will want me to take the night train, but I don't feel safe, plus the way I figure it if I am going to pay to take a train through Germany I am bloody well going to see Germany, although it leaves at like 8 in the morning and doesn't arrive until 10 at night. If I took the day train I would have to change in Munich. (I will have to check on the length of time in Munich) Wanda's concern was not having people going to pick me up late at night.
Although it doesn't seem far, Paris is over 1000km away from Vienna.

1 Comments:
At 10:52 am,
Heidi said…
You're becoming an opera-head! I'm not sure I'd want to sit (or stand, in your case) through all of those operas, even if they were in Vienna. Good luck for Paris. When do you go?
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