Thu 28 Oct 2004
Yesterday was our soccer team’s away game in Vienna. We played our best game of the season on the nicest field we’d ever seen, and we all had a great time. But we lost. My son said he enjoyed the game, but not as much as the trip coming and going!
Last time I drove to Vienna I got a parking ticket *at a gas station* just across the border. This time we didn’t stop at that gas station, but we still couldn’t avoid a parking ticket. When Stewart, the other coach, and I returned to our two vans we had two fresh tickets for 21 euro each. We looked but couldn’t find anything indicating that we shouldn’t park there – except maybe the fact that there were two empty spaces, so unusual in Vienna that it should have been obvious that something was wrong! Part of being outside the loop as a foreigner, I guess. Next time I’ll take the train.
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October 18th, 2005 at 2:07 pm[...] Last year’s trip to Vienna didn’t seem so long. I remember getting a parking ticket and playing on a professional quality field, but this year’s 5 hour round trip with 6 caged junior high boys in my car, all hopped up on sugar, seemed like a steep price to pay for the 40 minutes of soccer we ended up with. [...]
