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welcome to this video everyone a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to travel to Germany and I extended that trip to also visit Austria as well as the Czech Republic so first off after leaving Gamescom and you can check out that blog if you're interested I traveled and took the train and down to Salzburg Austria Salzburg is renowned for its Baroque architecture and it's a unesco world heritage site was named so in 1996 also the birthplace of wolfgang amadeus mozart and the setting for the musical play and where they filmed much of The Sound of Music this blog I just made my weight today from Cologne Germany to Munich and then down here to Salzburg I'm in Austria now it's been a lovely day I took a short nap and then I woke up to this they're guys like the apocalypse nice okay so we're getting a bit of weather I guess is what it's come down to first meal in Austria I got a cheeseburger cuz I'm gland but Diana got schnitzel so also my wife's here now yay animate it so fortunately the weather got a little bit better from there but our first major activity was the sound of music tour where we go and check out many of the places and locations where the sound of music was filmed look it's the gazebo from I am sixteen going on seventeen they moved it here in 1991 you can't go outside cuz people were jumping up and down off of the benches and injuring themselves no I don't know why I'm running oh yeah just where Maria runs along with her her guitar and her suitcase and jumps up and down and it's a very important part of movie character developments among other things I'm not gonna jump though don't injured myself I did States we actually had a lot of fun on the sound of music tour it was cool to see a lot of those locations and Salzburg as well as the surrounding area is just incredibly picturesque so lots of fun but we decided to end the day with some dinner accompanied by live musical entertainment right a fancy dinner is three courses and Agatha Mozart for us Mozart was born in Salisbury this part here I was a great action shot look we got our main entree this is a cape on which is a male chicken they castrate and then they fatten it up and imagine that makes it more delicious good you should all castrate your chickens dessert is this geometrically shaped semi-frozen birthday and you know what that's some tartness going on there the next stop on our tour was Vienna which was an amazing place again incredible architecture everywhere there's just castles and statues everywhere you might look this was the seat of power during the height of the austro-hungarian Empire and here thanks to a really cool hotel room that was very centrally located we were able to wander around view much of the medieval and Baroque architecture and here we were promised quite a few fun activities some Vienna sausages well we had a few sausages here but there were also many delicious pastries we checked out the medieval and Baroque architecture castles palaces churches are scattered everywhere you might look West had a chance to briefly visit the original home of the world's first psychotherapist Sigmund Freud which was interesting because you could still see like his hat and suitcase where he left it when he fled the Nazis and we've just arrived to our room after taking the Train pretty much across the country Austria is amazingly beautiful there were green lush Hills everywhere and sort of a pastoral landscape and every once while you'd go by a church or like a cornfield or something and like the greenness it was so everything was so alive and vibrant and everything but finally got here it's raining a bit we are expecting rain for today and tomorrow it's gonna clear up after that and our room here is just like this is amazing look look how huge this is we have so much space in here there's a here we have a full couch bed of course we got bathroom in there and then we even have a balcony look Vienna they were like pretty close to the central city area we got a convenient access to the Burger King down there we decided since we're in Vienna Austria that we should get Turkish food yeah that's a good stuff we're not going to the hospital is the Hofburg were charged here in Vienna for a very long time centuries the dates but they have a palace which is what I would do if I was in charge what we're looking at is basically cutlery flatware additions and stuffs that were used by the old imperial thing wait my white balance is terrible all of a sudden somewhere up here chamber puffs yeah that's where really powerful people to use to do their business it's amazing from Vienna we did a day trip where we actually got to ride bicycles along the Danube in an area that's very famous for their wineries they specialize in white wine here and that was also a very cool day Thanks this would be ven trusty steed for the next 7 hours give or take as you can see I got the shocks up here very high quality no basket it's ok though it's a little bit more mellow here than it is in Vienna proper and I think we're heading up this direction where there are wineries for right now while we're in the city I'm gonna get a ticket if I do any video while we're riding our bikes so we'll see in a minute get the the standard 3 liter 6 liter 9 liter 12 Hey oh hello 15 later on uh just go for the 18 later out it is it's bolted to the wall well I just have to go for one of these exploring finish line this is it's a really cool town and we're walking down to the river this is the den u'b I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that and apparently shuttle us a lot of cool air out of this valley which helps them grow good wine it's awesome apparently when the river becomes angry it's well sometimes rise got up to like down here in the twenties fifties 1897 most recently 2013 almost matched the highest high-water mark in 2002 which has a special plaque all right we're told we can eat some grapes Oh quick prints look a grape from a vineyard I imagine this will be much different than normal grapes very juicy and there were seeds I wasn't expecting other than that is very good get ice cream we get the den you what could be finer you're checking out of our hotel in Vienna I want to show you guys this place because the halls are huge and then the the elevator is like awesome it's actually opened a door to get into it and you can see down elevator all the way down there and it's it's I kind of old and janky but we actually kind of like it yeah Hotel trend Astoria there it is as it comes up here then you can open oh I just have to open the door then we go Paula says this place reminds him of the shiny it does it's very much like the shiny and then the final leg of our journey was to Prague which is in the Czech Republic it's the historical capital of Bohemia currently the capital of the Czech Republic and just an incredible amount of history here as well it's often referred to as the Paris of the east due to its architecture and rich history there are more than 10 major museums in Prague along with numerous theaters galleries cinemas and other historical exhibits and we tried to hit as many of them as we could we made it to our hotel room and Prague despite trying to get ripped off by a bunch of shady taxi drivers charges 35 hero from the train station it worked out that we actually got a really cool driver who took us here and he was very nice and friendly and this is a room perhaps a bit fancier and more stylish than what we were dealing with back in Vienna that view of the building next door yeah we're really hungry cuz we haven't had lunch yet so we're gonna do that now look cookie Merton apparently you can also buy pot there I didn't know that was the thing but there is Lisa Simpson with a head full a week we've decided to get lunch here it's a little Moody in there let's see if Otto can handle the light Jam oh okay here's the inside adjusted for the light a little bit better candlelit and have a medieval theme I got a skewer something delicious looking this this is pork my mouth is watering this smells really good okay i'ma eat right now nice and full just wandering Prague a little bit I think that was my favorite meal I've had on the trip so far so I really like the typical I guess Czech dinner which is meat dumplings cabbage look fancy cheese honey grapes it's marmalade set marmalade maybe marmalade I'm excited about that and I get up here I got this burger I already kind of took it apart so it doesn't look very pretty right now Dianna has prawns for dessert we have chocolate fondant fondant fun and this is like a pear sorbet day and it's gonna do a taste test hmm good morning Prague so Diana found a YouTube channel called honest guides and she's been watching them they're based I believe they're based here in Prague but they do guides if while going around and stuff in one of their big recommendations is if you want to go to the tourist arias to get there early so it's about 7:00 a.m. and we're headed to charles bridge it's kind of number one destination the only time I've ever seen stuff like this is when it's been sort of manufactured by Disney one of the more sobering stops on our trip was the Jewish Museum and the Jewish quarter in Prague you might be aware that there were a number of Czech victims of the Holocaust in fact well over seventy thousand and all of their names are up on the walls in here it's again a difficult thing but something I think that's important to be aware of and experience so that we can remember the past hopefully not repeat those mistakes if you guys weren't aware franz kafka was born in prague so there are several statues to him including this massive one of his head that sort of shifts around from side to side it's it's really cool looking and only vaguely disturbing big wet what is this what's going on here I'm a little little freaked out to be honest I don't know what any of this is what why why why is it like that all right we've stepped into black Mary universe I think we should escape quickly here's an area known as Lenin's wall where all the hippies hang out and spray-paint things usually they're very woke and socially conscious but you should I should point out here that Lenin has never actually visited Prague this is our hotel the vintage design hotel sex actually right up the road from the u.s. embassy where they have lots of extra security for some reason but we're tired you've been out since early this morning we're gonna take a break dinner even a pretty simple with the food here we had some bread about the cheese hey Murphy some hummus dinner number two I got sausages and potatoes then I got the Caesar salad just keeping it up to date on our gastronomical adventures and on our final day in Prague just up the hill from our hotel was the actual castle it's the largest castle in the world and it's still where the seat of power is in Prague it's where the president lives the castle itself is pretty cool-looking and there's several museum exhibits that lets you walk around and explore and in the center of it is the st. Vitus Cathedral which is absolutely insane again just gothic monastery it's huge it is an intricate and there are these stained-glass windows inside and everywhere that are just gorgeous to look through what's really cool is from the outside you can't really see much but from the inside it's just a burst of color so I spent quite a bit of time in here just checking things out and enjoying the ambience again a huge benefit to just come in here first thing in the morning it's like a little I think it's like 7:30 right now there's like no people yay we got in we did have to wait in line there's the cathedral I guess we got to go into another another courtyard further in we're doing some renovations over on this side of the castle or the usual look look there's like gargoyles lots of gargoyles just Diana for scale right now in old prague castle guessing this was an exercise room lots of floor space oh sorry nope you need to have a license I need devil I'm art photography sorry guys right I'm probably risking being arrested or something but I had to show you guys they used to do indoor ghosting here that's called the Knights staircase over there sleeping Porsches in do indoor justing that's really cool okay so we're told this Hall is built specifically around these walnut bookcases which were rescued somewhere else southern Bohemia I think and we can't walk in this room because people breathing I was destroying the frescoes on the wall so we stand here at a respectful distance Isis really like this boat Denis is it this is a cool boat here and these are all dried remains of sea creatures that they would bring back and try to convince people if they ever see monsters out there sharks skates over here we have a narwhal tusks that one in the middle it's just really cool look and it's all spirally and stuff but on either side these are whale penises and I just if you guys got this far in this video I'm really proud of you for sticking with it so you can get a look at the whale penis I had no idea they were so long and skinny but I guess they got to be versatile right that's also dehydrated so who knows maybe maybe in real life you know or maybe it's just cold it'd be cold in this room too I think I've discovered the origin of meta here these are called silo teca's and they're books about foliage or trees but the book is made out of a tree that the book is about right so it's got like clippings and other stuff like that inside there and then the wood and and everything and the so we can actually look on the side and see like the part of the tree that the book is described and that's amazing it's so much better than just like describing it with words well Ben is a low tech n that's the word of today this is the straw Huff Library and this is where we just were where we saw the whale penis and everything good times and one of the final stops on the tour the alchemists museum where they celebrate alchemy and all of the things I thought alchemy was about trying to make gold out of lesser metals but apparently it's also about like trying to big bring humans back from the dead and growing mushrooms also explosive glass shards that scatter everywhere on our last night in Prague we had an amazing dinner right down by the river it was a wonderful view and I had wine and beer and some steak and also the dessert was this like chocolate cake thing that was just oh so good no apricot of apricot not caramel delicious delicious I've been trick is to get the ice cream in most delicious thing I've had for dessert after that we walked back up to the hotel and I really enjoyed just walking through the streets of Prague late at nights the lighting was really cool and just people talking and the architecture very dramatic very romantic and Joe Joe you're editing Scriven through video yeah okay what's this this is just what's outside the friends Kafka museum pretty normal pretty standard yeah these are just there's pan much like the Franz Kafka head statue it rotates Lua it's kind of does a little dance well dance back and forth and probably the highlight of the trip so far I think so Joe I recorded this just for you and anyone watching this video so from there we made our way back to the airport's got back on the plane and the long 11 and a half hour trip back to the United States actually went by fairly quickly thankfully and the last step on any trip like this I got to pick up the dogs they've been at Petsmart for the last 10 days or so and they're of course incredibly happy to see the guys that is all for this video this has been my travel vlog of visiting Austria as well as the Czech Republic thank you so much for watching I'll be back with normal tech videos very soon so hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this one and we'll see you in the next video