My camera informs me that it is day 56 – that’s the halfway point of our trip! In some ways it seems to have flown by, in others it seems that we have been away forever.
Day 56 saw us awake on the overnight train from Zurich to Vienna. We departed Zurich at 22:40 and arrived in Vienna just after 09:00, managing to get some sleep on the hard beds. We shared the tiny couchette with an lovely older Swiss couple. Fortunately we booked a 4-person couchette – the 6-person one is the same size, they just stick another two beds above the four!
On the EuroNight Train
We celebrated the halfway point in Vienna at Das Biedermeiercafé-Restaurant. Very reasonable prices, a friendly host, good local wine and excellent meals – no wonder it’s a Michelin-recommended restaurant.
Fiaker - beef goulash with fried egg, sausage and dumpling
To end this post, I thought I’d share ten of the things we can’t live without in Europe:
1 – Eurail pass, timetable and map
2 – Combination lock on my daypack
3 – Technology (camera, laptop, unsecure wireless connections and tripadvisor.com)
4 – Laundry detergent in a tube
5 – Jeans
6 – Wizard Mastercard (no annual fee, 55 days interest free, free cash withdrawals, good exchange rate and no currency conversion fee!)
7 – Rick Steves’ Best of Europe guidebook
8 – Bi- and tri-lingual Europeans
9 – Glasses (to see sights and read signs from as far away as possible when carrying a backpack!)
10- Our blog readers. Thank YOU 
Yes I know it is half way , we have been counting the weeks!!! Jo and I were discussing with PE yesterday.
Have a great time.
Barb
You should be grateful that you both fit on the beds – needless to say I had to curl up a tad to fit in the sleeper-beds in Vietnam.
The photos of the alps are spectacular. So glad you got good weather. Amy really enjoyed catching up with you. I think she is planning to take us to the same places. Only 7 & a bit weeks till we head off. But who’s counting! Seems hard to believe that you’re at the halfway mark. Hope the second half is just as enjoyable.
Love Marg.
Aw feeling the love!