Vegan Vienna 2009
OK, first of all. I did not come up with that name.
Just so we’re clear.
Some weeks ago it was my birthday. I blogged about that, or about the fact I’d forgotten about it. I received many great gifts including the Lonely Planet photography book, a spoon (for tunneling out of North Korea) and a chain mail dice bag
But the best gift came from some people I met on the interwebz. A meet-up had been on the planning for some time in Vienna aaaaaaaaand that’s where my interest stopped. I am quite broke at the moment and flying to Vienna doesn’t really line up with being broke. So someone offered to drive me there, no charge and a bed was offered soon enough after that. I got a long weekend in Vienna for my B-day present. WHeeeeeeee.
Wednesday night I made my way to Arnhem so we could leave the next day at 05:00.
This brought us 1100 km to Vienna. Though when the odometer went back to 60 km/h on the first hill I was a bit afraid of the fact that Vienna . . . . well, it’s in Austria. And Austria is mostly in the Alps.
Undaunted, we continued. Ronald had to drive the entire way solo as I am not a licensed driver.
Thanks again Ronald.
After a grueling drive we arrived. Our gracious host received us
Aaaaaand put us to work 
There were some 20-odd people in total on the meetup, but that’s too cumbersome to navigate throughout the city so we split up by houses. This was mine
We humbly thank the officers of the Vienna police department for not having us all arrested.
When we finally did get together there was food
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more food
more food
cake
good ol’ fashioned fun
Booze
shenanigans
sushi
and euhm . . . . .
karaoke
Go here for more pictures.
Thank you all for a wonderfull (long) weekend. And special thanks to whoever infected 10-odd people with the flu An extra week at home recovering was nice.
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