Just to backtrack a little, we spent the Easter long weekend in Vienna. Oh my, how glorious was that?? I am absolutely in love with the place, in spite of the Strauss and the Léhar and the Mozart fixations. The architecture is amazing, concerts all over the place and a gorgeous compact little city centre just teeming with shops, everywhere you look. My German, it appears however, is rubbish. I managed one meaningful exchange in the entire weekend which was asking a girl in the supermarket whether the tea I was holding ("Hot Love" *snort* - actually a raspberry and vanilla infusion. mmm) actually had any black tea in it or if it was just fruit. I was quite pleased with that, but seemed to be otherwise unable to ask the simplest thing without dissolving into a muddle of French and English (why?? why??).

# posted by minim @ 9:12 PM