A Grazful Entrance

Day: 214 & 215

Towns / Cities Visited: 137

Countries Visited: 25

Steps Taken Today: 30,083

Steps Taken Around the World: 3,546,929

So we had finally come to a juncture where we had been forced to choose between taking a four train, eight hour saga to get where we wanted to go, or try and organise a more expensive but hugely more convenient private transfer. After much back and forth on the pros and cons, we decided to bite the bullet and foot the bill for the transfer. Sometimes you just have to ask yourself, ‘How much is my time worth?’. A little tentative, we awoke, packed our bags, checked out of our Airbnb, and wandered downstairs, standing at our agreed meeting address and waiting. We need not have worried though, and right on time our ride rolled up. Our chauffeur was helpful, despite speaking next to no English, and we settled comfortably into the back seat of his Mercedes. A quiet two and a half hour drive, which involved a little more speeding than we would have liked, saw us arrive safely across the border in our new location: Graz, Austria.

Dropping off our bags at our accommodation, we left to do a little exploring, as we were a tad early and the little Airbnb apartment we were staying in was still in the process of being cleaned. Our planned activities would not be beginning until tomorrow, so we took the opportunity to leisurely stroll around, finding a cute little restaurant sporting, somewhat surprisingly, a selection of Yugoslavian…