Day 22- Vienna- Rest Day

First let me say it looks like I have downloaded the Europe maps to my Garmin...... yeh dancing in the street was the order of the day!!!!

The day started a little later as we decided to have a sleep in to 7.00 am then make our way in to Stephanplatz in the centre of town to have some breakfast....we managed to negotiate the underground to the required destination and found a cafe to have coffee and eggs on toast.... Chris had pancakes and OJ.... got to say the helpings were very small

We then thought we would continue the big bus tour to Schonbrunn Palace but alas.... silly me had left the bus tickets back at our apartment... so we have to take a short trip back to get the tickets.

On the way back Chris had a good idea to find a computer repair shop to see whether they could get the download to work from Garmin so we made our way back in to town and the bus route took us to the “markets” which was full of eateries and stalls selling fruit, vegetables , spices, fish and the like. After walking around the market we located a computer store called Jix which looked promising .... and asked them whether they could help us with my Garmin and the young assistant called Emry was very good in looking on the Garmin website for the downloading information. After a few false starts and a couple of cable changes it seemed promising. Emry said he would look after the downloading and we went back to the market for lunch and later caught the bus to Schonbrunn...

Schonbrunn is a very large palace used by the Hauptsburg family. The palace and grounds are bigger than the principality of Monaco...

We saw the coach museum.... not as good as the Royal Mews in London.... and took a “little train” ride around the grounds which was interesting. Along the way Chris and I struck up a conversation with a couple of Aussies one of whom is living in Austria and another friend who was on a holiday on one of the Danube cruise boats. 

Very interesting to hear their stories.... particularly one of them who was an ex federal police officer who was assigned to security for 2 of our Prime Ministers and a Governor General....

After Schonbrunn it was back via train to Jix to see whether the downloading had worked..... and yes it had been done!!!!

This hopefully brings an end to this unfortunate saga 

Chris then needed a new water bottle and we went to buy a new one and then made our way back by train and tram to our apartment.

As I was standing under the shower at the end of the day I reflected on the joy of getting the Garmin sorted out and more particularly the help and time given by Chris over the past few weeks as this saga continued.... friends are special and I thank Chris for his friendship 

The other thing I want to mention is that today is my granddaughter Sienna’s birthday and she is turning 6 and I managed to ring her when she was at home having the family dinner and birthday cake.... happy birthday Sienna...love from Pa

Tomorrow we are on the road again along the Danube through to Hungary and we say goodbye to Austria 

Now for the photos....

Schonbrunn palace from the front entrance 

Schonbrunn from the hill in the rear garden 

Scenes of jubilation following the successful download...

With Jochan ( owner of the business on the left) and Emry( the computer wizard on the right)