just another weekend

unlike past weeks where its been go go go, i was able to catch up with myself a little bit and relax for once... i spent the majority of the weekend hanging around the house, only to go out for short excursion such as the zentralfriedhof, or central cemetery, out by simmering, where i walked around for about an hour and took a few pictures of beethoven, strauss, and schubert's grave (weve been learning about them in my music class) tonight, sunday, im going to the opera to see the barber of seville. afterwards i have to do a paper for the music class, i really hate this class fyi...and i was planning on going to see the lipizzaner horses at the spanische winterreitschule but i put it off for much needed sleep. i am thinking this week i might end up going to the kuntsthistorisches museum, one of europes top museums, most likely on wed after my european cities class.
as far as the rest of my schedule goes
20.2-22.2 budapest and/maybe miskolc hungary. ive been wanting to go to budapest for awhile and just havent found the time...also during the time i will be in hungary, miskolc is having a meat jelly festival which sounded interesting. miskolc is about 150 kilometers from budapest so i would take about an hour and a half to get there. the plan is to go on thursday night to budapest and go to miskolc on fri and spend the day at the festival and then back to budapest on sat morning but it is all up in the air. most likely i will avoid the excess travel and stay in budapest and enjoy it for 3 full days. its a pretty cheap place to stay, they have an abundant amount of hostels for under 10 euros a night.
the following week
26.2-1.3 trieste, italy for a class trip
they have informed us that we will be leaving very early on thurs morning at 630 and arriving back in vienna late on sun. at this point i am even more thankful i have mon morning off and i will be able to sleep in. trieste is a small city sandwiched between slovenia and the gulf of trieste. there is a lot of scheduled free time and i believe we have an entire day to ourselves so a lot of us were talking about taking a day trip to nearby cities such as venice, rijeka croatia, or ljubljana, slovenia, all of which are about an hours worth of travel away.
6.3-10.3 amsterdam
im going to be meeting thomas and larry who are coming over to visit in amsterdam for a few days. i am taking a night train leaving thurs the 5th and arriving the following morning around noon. i will have a few days on my own to walk around and sightsee before i meet them on sun afternoon. i am planning on renting a bike on day, sat, and touring the city via bike. i have heard from many people that a bike is the best way to experience amsterdam's many bridges and canals along with the fact that amsterdam is known for their biking. this way i will be able to save on public transportation as well.
after i meet up thomas and larry, the plan is up in the air from there, i figured that the fact that they have come this way i dont care what we get into, im just happy to see them...no worries i wont be experiencing the red light districts offerings...at least not the x rated or illigal american kind. ive been there before and its the kind of thing where you have to see it and you cant not go if your in amsterdam, but once youve been there, its not that big of a deal if you go back or not.
13.3-14.3 bratislava
another class trip, but this time thomas and larry will be coming along... not sure what the plan is but i have talked to thomas and larry about spending the night and just coming back the next day but that is up in the air as well. that sat, there is a rapid vienna game, one of the top teams in austria, and we were going to go watch the game. i figured that we can decide on staying the night once we get to that point.
at this point im sure i will be a little bit worn down from the past 4 weeks and i will want some time to relax for a bit...i will have 3 weekends left until i come home on the 5th of april but i will want to make sure i make it out to salzburg for a day or two. im thinking i will go on a fri morning and come back on a sat night. i think that would be an ideal 2 days, plus i would save some money on housing as well.
another trip i want to make is to go from krems to melk... there is a 25-30kilmeter (15-18 miles) trail that runs along the danube river. ive read that you can rent a bike and travel the trail by bike which would take only a few hours or i might decide to hike it and stop off somewhere to camp for the night. there are numerous villages along the way that i would be able to stop off at for a nights sleep. either way, the end result will bring me to melk where i will visit the melk abbey, considered one of the most 3 beautiful abbeys in the world.
im sure things will again change though, but i will keep you informed of my whereabouts and im going to try my best to keep my mom from pulling her hair out due to her worried nature.