Today we actually slept in....until 8am. Getting up, we headed straight out to find the Hundertwasser Haus, but to no avail. Wandering around for a while, and getting lost a couple of times, we finally had to give up, not because we wanted to, but because we had to return to our hotel to meet up with Roman, an family friend of my grandfather. They use to work together, and visited each other in Canada and Austria many times.
Meeting Roman at 11am, he is quite the man. Smoking every second we were outside, he just came back from a 3 day ski trip, and drives 160km\h on the autoban. He also has the strongest handshake I know, but also has a hand shakes, which confuses me. What a guy. Picking us up from our hotel, he drove us to his house for tea to talk, and look at pictures. After tea, he drove us around Steyr (where he lives) giving us mountain side views of the city and showing us things around town, including where Grandpa stayed while he was there. It was very nice.
After this, we had a nice dinner (I had a whole fish....but didn´t eat the head or tail....sorry dad) and then we headed to Linz for our hotel room that night. Driving back, Roman had no idea where he was going, but wasn´t going to admit it. 'If I just find the river, I´ll know where to go.' Sure enough, we finally found the river, but he still had no idea where he was going. Driving and driving, mom finally found a sign that pointed to the marriott, and we had to CONVINCE him to turn. Checking in we were surprised to find that there was no executive lounge or free internet....then I realized: I`ve become a hotel snob. Going to our room, we fell asleep on our single beds, listening to CNN (the only english channel).
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