This trip originated over drinks. Lots of drinks.
I was bitching about having an un-used passport, and my friend said, "Ok! Let's go!" He then said, "And I know people in Vienna, so we can stay with them! Let's do London/Paris/Vienna." And it was agreed. We had a map. Now, we had to create an itinerary.
Flash forward to today.
(A little more background: I suck at Geography. No, really, that's why my trivia team never gets first place, always second or third.)
Vienna is a long freakin' trip from London and Paris. And the only way to reach it by train is to run through Germany or Switzerland. And the overnight rail costs 3/4 the cost of our round-trip Trans-Atlantic flight. Let me map it out for you:
I am totally panicked. It's going to cost x3 what I thought, just for travel. And all the travel time will cut into our touristing time! And why does it cost $200 more to fly one-way on Virgin Atlantic than round-trip?! This whole thing is turning into a complete mess, and I just don't know what I am going to do.
And then, iChat comes into play. And my friend types the glorious words, "Well, worst case we can always cut that leg out and just try to spend a couple of days extra in paris and the surrounds too." This may be the best thing my friend has ever said to me.
So now, the trip is slightly altered. By the end of this weekend, we'll have a new map in play, something more regional to the channel. I'm thinking London/Paris/Amsterdam. Or maybe just longer stays in London and France.
All I know is the trip in ON like Donkey Kong, and I'm excited to do even more research now.
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