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The torte slice actually posed the problem of how to divide such a small thing 7 ways. But the deli was definitely trouble, as was three bakeries worth of hamantashen. We will benefit from the chintzy portion sizes in France, but then there are the Austrians, and the Germans!
5 years agoGood question. Stay tuned, and check in next week to find out.
5 years agoGreat story. At this rate though, will you two be able to bike at all when you finally hit the road?
5 years agoGreat to see you two on the move again!
5 years agoSoak up all that wonderful grandkid time (and some more greasy fries) while you can! Looks too cold to get out to do anything! Brrrrr!
5 years agoOmygosh! The kids are SO cute! Say hi to Josh and Sabrina for us!
5 years agoHad been concerned you might be on a 737-800 Max8 as Air canada has the most and hasn’t suspended their use.
Getting used to the security going off is something Dodie will need to get used to. When we we flying out of Poland the person at security asked me to pull down my pants and show my scar right there in the security line. I could barely do it as I was laughing so much
Have a great trip
Tricia
Waiting with baited breath!!
5 years agoI too have found SNCF/Oui to be increasingly frustrating. Very few TGV trains take bicycles, and the new site doesn't seem to list all the regional TER/ICE train options. The Bahn is quite good, as is the Austrian OBB - both has a toggle that allows you to search using a longer transfer time.
I did look at trainline site, but I couldn't see where a search would include only the trains that allow bikes -which is necessary to confirm before purchasing the ticket. Is it somewhere I missed?
We have heard both good and bad things about the Greenway and Czech. - i.e. Anderson's loved it, and some other friends from Kamloops hated it. We will try to trip over and report on any obstacles for you before you get there!
5 years agoLooks to be a great trip and I look forward to following along. I plan on including the Vienna-Prague Greenway on my route this fall, so am especially interested in how you find that section of your journey.
Enjoy!
Hamantashen... 👋👋👋 ....I know, I know!!
Safe travels...
A few years ago we established a Euros account with HSBC. The account is run out of Paris, but transfers from Canada are made easy by HSBC's rather international outlook. Dealing with French HSBC is a whole other thing, but often it works out.
This time around they sent a text to our Canadian phone, asking for confirmation that we really wanted to buy these cuckoo train tickets out of Austria. Had we waited to buy the tickets until we were in Europe, then that Canadian phone would have been in Canada. Desole!
In principle we could use our card to buy the tickets for you, but the chance of screwing up the trains or your names or how the tickets are delivered is huge. Still, let us know if you can see a way.
I got all the way to paying for our tickets on Ouigo.com and on Trainline.eu, only to discover that Canadian credit cards are not accepted. Nor is PayPal nor any other method of payment I can think of.
I didn't get quite to the payment page on raileurope.ca or thetrainline.com because those sites did not list the earlier, cheaper departure we wanted and which we had seen on the other sites, instead denying its existence.
How did you manage to actually pay for tickets?
What a great read! I immediately googled Hamantaschen (with sch) München and came up with a lot of results. I asked Janos if he had ever heard of them or something similar in Hungary since much of the baking traditions were common to all of the Habsburger Empire but the answer was no.
5 years agoGood luck on your torten-chase, a rewarding project and I'm sure Germany and Austria will not disappoint!