Addition to trip to Austria

Addition to Austria

We had such a great time, even though it wasn't enough time to see everything. As my cariño Elisa mentioned we were getting up early to see as much as we possibly could with the time we had given ourselves. The town of Graz is not very large and after 1hour or so Elisa and I was able to venture around town without any help. I do recommend the clock tower known as the Uhrtuhm which you can either see by lift, cable car or stairs.

It was nice to be able to introduce Elisa to my maternal Grandmother (last grandparent still alive). However nervous I was of introductions and not knowing wether both would get on well we both arrived at my Grandmothers flat on arrival at Graz and they seemed to be able to chat for hours which was great. I was able to breathe easy that both got on well, but also very happy that I could take a short rest whilst they discussed back and forth between themselves. We got on the train around 11am the next day as Elisa mentioned to get to Vienna, Beautiful countryside.. all the way to Vienna.  Elisa has covered most of our time there, so I am just going to say very very cultural and artistic whether it be arts, music, museums or theatre - Vienna had it all.

On our return to Graz, we had more time to enjoy the Styrian Graz food, we went out one night with Gran to a typical Graz 'locally sourced' restaurant.. where we tried all different specialties. Fish, Veal, Soups. Very tasty. On reminiscing of our special trip, it was fun and full of running around but well worth the trip. Oh and yes, Elisa has tons of photos of our lovely memories together. : )

Our trip to Austria

Our flags together at the
United Nations - Vienna

Graz City -2012

On 20/02/2012 we went to Austria for a few days. We travelled to Graz to visit Mark's grandmother and the trip was a couple of days after a big snowfall around all Europe. It was cold and some snow was still around some of the streets but it was nice to be in another country! When we arrived it was sunny and it remained with a   quite decent weather throughout all our stay

I took almost 30 or more 
pictures just on the train!

Although the flight arrived on time, unfortunately we didn't arrive on time for the grandmas' 'welcome to Graz' dinner and she was a bit upset about it as the food was cold and she was worried about us not being able to get to her house because we didn't  speak the language (mother's instinct! hehe). But we were fine! Most people speak English everywhere and I had Mark that could say a couple of words in Austrian! but as I said... only a couple! he he

From Graz we decided to take the train and visit Vienna. The trip wasn't bad at all!. It only took us around four hours or so but the scenery was beautiful! Lots of house cabins in the middle of the mountains, snow, the sun shining and lakes that kept us entertained...oh, and me trying to take pictures of us two on the train but failing on must of them. When we checked them they were wither too close, one of us had their eyes closed or we looked too tired, as we woke up early every day to enjoy the holidays. Next time we will hire a photographer to come with us!...

Even though we didn't have a photographer we managed to take looooooots of pictures. I was the one taking almost all the pictures; Mark was enjoying the sightseeing and the city. All my friends and everyone know that I love to capture every single moment of my holidays (I could put it as every single second). But I am happy with our snapshots as I will be able to share my visit with family, friends (and even my children!) in future without missing any detail. I loved the trip to Austria. Vienna is so clean and very cultural, with lots  of museums, we needed more time (and £££) to visit them all.

Our first date 

Photo taken by Mark on our first date!

This is the first post, and my aim is to document our best moments together since the very first day we've met. 

Once upon a time, our story began on a beautiful weekend on the 18th September 2011 in London (UK). Our meetings was set in the afternoon, my memory is failing right now but I think it was around 1.30pm (I am sure Mark has better memory than me)

Our very first meeting couldn't have been in a better place for us. Mark set the location at the amazing M&M store in Leicester Square London. I was running five minutes late (as usual) but managed to get there without any problems. 

Since we first met we share lots of nice moments and didn't stop laughing, we browsed the shop and all the different toys and sweets and, cutting the story short, we had such a good laugh  and time as if we already met like a million years ago!.... since day one I had a good feeling, we both felt so comfortable with each other and I knew that this was a good sign and I think we both felt the same... (and we weren't wrong!)