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Done with everything in Vienna, sitting in dads chair in good old Dornbirn that welcomed me with a refreshing 5 degrees. As mentioned in the thread before, anything goes when it`s autumn in the Austrian alps. Packing was less exhausting than i expected and with a little help from friends and family I was done in no time. The harder part was saying bye to my dearest and nearest. Funny that while I had been thinking about the fact that i would be gone for a while, it seem to have hit my closest friends at the very last day. So my last two days in Vienna were spent with large rounds of friends...

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30st of September. Still 16 more days till departure, and i am in the middle of my preparations. I have sold my car yesterday, I have written my last story today, I have said goodbye to all my colleagues from work. What is ahead of me? Packing, tidying up my flat, more packing, driving to Dornbirn, meeting the family there. That will be holidays already. Being home is always so cosy. Even though, being in the mountany west of Austria it can be a little cosier than appreciated. Fog, Rain and snow down to a couple of hundred meters are possible in october. Still, what should I care, only 15 m...

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Thanks ÖBB, you have helped to make this journey quite an adventure!

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I am not too sure, which theory applies more often: the self destroying, or the self fulfilling prophecy? When I decided to travel across Austria by train I was more than counting on the first. Austrian trains generally make you wonder whether its still the 20st century you are in, but recently I have been tricked into thinking the government invested into new trains, by mistakenly boarding a German train. (uhm, acutally I was not boarding it, I just dropped afriend there). So Wrong. Back to this one. Austria is a small country and usually it takes you seven hours to get from one end to...

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