Buses, Cellphones and Flammbinis

These past two years of using public transportation really came in handy when I had to take my first Austrian bus by myself! I got picked up on the F bus out front of the University to take me to the train station. The buses here are a little weird. You don't have to pay to get on the bus. If you do pay its 1.90 euros, but if you don't pay and a ticket guy comes on the bus you can be fined 50 euros. I usually just pay the 1.90.

Once I got to the train station I reserved my seat on the 15:27 train to Verona, Italy on Thursday! We are going there for one night then Friday making our way down to Venice. The eurail pass that I have makes it free for me to get on a train, after paying for the pass of course, but it doesn't guarantee me a seat on the train so I had to reserve one for 3.50 euros.

Then I walked two blocks to the T-Mobile store to pick up a prepaid phone so I don't have to make my mom sell a kidney to pay for my phone charges. It was a totally of 30 euros for the phone, 1000 texts and 1000 minutes to anyone in Austria for a month, which is perfect cause I leave exactly one month from today!

The T-mobile store is right next to this beach restaurant that I had passed by last week and saw they have piña coladas. So after buying my phone I headed over there for a quick lunch, since I didn't want to eat caterpillars for lunch. I got this thing called a Flammbini which is just a folded pizza. It was really good, not very filling which explains why my stomach is rumbling right now, but still good. I accompanied that with a nice piña colada. The combo made a great snack!

This is the restaurant

soooo european!