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Dienstag 🇦🇹

We drove to Oslip today to buy some wine. We spent a long weekend at the winery three years ago and enjoyed the guest house and the wine there. Returning to the hotel with the twelve bottles of wine in the boot, we opted for the scenic route instead of the highway, and it was a wise choice. We crossed a small hill, then small villages, and finally, we arrived at the hotel using roads the locals wouldn't use.

After spending five minutes in the room, we drove to Vienna. We had coffee at Aida: Ági had an iced coffee, and I grabbed a ristretto and a Mozart cake. Then we strolled in the city and visited a public garden and a museum. The exhibition couldn't excite us. It was about sci-fi and indigenous things, but we both found it painfully dull. We then crossed another park to get back to the car and returned to the hotel eventually. The weather is warm. The highest temperature was +32°C, and the next days will be equally hot, which is good news since it is much better to have a summer holiday at +30°C than in rain, wind, and cold. We are knackered. Anyway, tomorrow we will buy things we need, then drive to the city, grab some nosh at Akakiko, visit the Hundertwasser house and the Freud Museum, and return to the hotel.

It's great to be here and spend some quality time together in a city that both of us love and relish.

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