Years from now, some may want to speculate on how the Barrons managed to navigate through Europe without GPS, Mapquest, detailed city maps or Zuzanna. (Note to future travellers, Mapquest does not yet provide driving directions or maps for central Europe.)
If they were the detectives from Law & Order, they would question how we arrived in cities at 2:30 pm, but arrived at our hotel at 4:00. Or if we left the hotel at 9:00 a.m., why did it take more than hour to actually leave the city?
Did we stop to shop? Perhaps someone needed to find a bathroom? Perhaps someone was hungry? Or indeed, were the Barrons lost in Europe?
We would say 'No', at all times we knew we were in Europe! We knew when we were in Vienna! We knew when we were in Prague!! The only time we MAY have been lost was attempting to reach our hotel in Bratislava. There were times we were not exactly sure if we were in Austria, Slovakia, or indeed Hungary, but we were confident we were nearing Bratislava and the centrum (city centre).
Today, May 9, Mutterdag in Vienna, we departed Budapest with no problems and arrived in Vienna with a few more detours to get to our hotel. Paul and I then dropped off the car (took a little longer than we expected to get back out of town) at the Airport and took the CAT back to the city and walked back to our hotel. Tour buses and walking will be our mode of transportation for the next few days. Paul can finally relax knowing he doesn't have to drive the standard anymore. By the way. we learned today that there is a European website that provides driving directions and we are'nt going to tell anyone how to get to it.
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