Auf Wiedersehen

Well tomorrow I leave Austria. The last few days have been quite nice. On Wednesday Deb and I went to a nice little Italian restuarant called Ecco. After that we went to a small reggae / hip hop bar called Zion. It was run by some local Africans and was very quite. They mainly played poppy hip hop. It brightened up a bit after Kate and Miguel arrived. Kate and Deb were doing turkish drops on an otherwise deserted dance floor to a track with the lyrics "you can do it, put your back into it". Hilarious!

On Thursday we hung out in Linz and then went to the opera again that night. This time to see Hansel and Gretel, which was a much lighter piece than the previous two and a lot of fun. Kate's friend Karen was fantastic in her debut as the Sandaman, but the show was really stolen by the witch. Afterwards we had a gathering back at Evelyn's.

We got up early today to have breakfast with Evelyn and her two boys, Alex and Andrew, before they went to work and school. Evelyn has been so great to us. Later we got the train back to Wein. The countryside was pretty and it seemd that the summery weather has finally arrived. We walked around town this afternoon and went to the Osterreichisch Galerie Belvedere to see some of Gustav Klimt's work. I also discovered a portrait by Johann Baptiste Lampi which really took my fancy and had me very excited. The faces were just amazing and showed just how wonderful oil paintings are at capturing light, likeness, character and emotionn. I think you had to be there.

Deb and I go our seperate ways tomorrow which will be more than a little sad as it has been a great time travelling together...