Re: 20th Anniversary of my trip to Paris and Vienna. < Reply # 21 on 7/11/2021 2:10 AM > | Reply with Quote
July 11, 2001. 20 years ago today Sloth and I check out catacombs at St Stephens Cathedral while dTrog goes hunting for some Kraftwerk CDs.
That afternoon SLoTH and I checked out The Third Man Tunnels. Once again, soft by today’s standards, but wow! I’ll do thumbs again as there are quite a lot of photos. The video is also worth a look and includes some footage from The Third Man.
Re: 20th Anniversary of my trip to Paris and Vienna. < Reply # 24 on 7/12/2021 8:36 AM > | Reply with Quote
July 12, 2001. Just wandered around Vienna today. SLoTH leaves so I’m all alone until I meet up with Gilligan again. Gill is my UER avatar. Speaking of Gilligan…
Re: 20th Anniversary of my trip to Paris and Vienna. < Reply # 25 on 7/13/2021 5:50 AM > | Reply with Quote
July 13, 2001. On this day 20 years ago I checked out the Upper Wein Canal (upstream of the Third Man drain). No photos but the video covers the walk pretty well and is an added bonus for Kraftwerk fans ;)
Re: 20th Anniversary of my trip to Paris and Vienna. < Reply # 26 on 7/15/2021 4:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
July 14, 2001. That’s pretty much the end of my exploring. I went and checked out the theme park with the Ferris Wheel that is seen in The Third Man movie. I think it’s the oldest Ferris Wheel in the world. There were two and they were bombed in the war and they used the parts to make one functional wheel. I don’t even know if anything in this paragraph is true or not Third minute is NSFW
July 17 to 21, 2001. Spend some time in Munich with no Urbex (yeah, I’m crazy) and met up with Gilligan again. Gilligan rocks up to find the motel has a lock out after 10pm. He tries calling out to me and some guy throws Gill down a blanket and he sleeps on the door step. Meanwhile I’m inside with my head or arse in the toilet with gastro. We both spend a couple of days recovering (Gill had this virus that saw him miss things like The 14th District).
July 22, 2001. 7 train trips across Germany on a Vockender ticket
July 23, 2001. Maastricht. Gilligan and I accidentally walk into Belgium and have a beer.
Re: 20th Anniversary of my trip to Paris and Vienna. < Reply # 27 on 7/26/2021 4:18 AM > | Reply with Quote
July 24-27, 2001. Rotterdam. I like this place.
July 28-29, 2001. I also like Den Haag too. I had a chat with an old local who seemed friendly until I got used to his accent (sounded South African) and realised he was telling me how “we whites were the supreme species (he said that) on the planet”. I left him yabbering away as I headed to the beach. He’d be dead by now.
July 30, 2001. Back to Rotterdam to meet Gill.
Aug 1 to 5, 2001. Spend 5 days checking out Amsterdam.
Aug 6, 2001. My only memory of Ho Chi Minh City was the traffic!
Aug 7, 2001. I get back to Melbourne thinking that I could never get interested in Australian drains again. That night I went and spent a couple of hours up at The Pillars in Northcote Golf Course Drain. I missed my good old faithful Melbourne drains