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On the 16 February, we woke up to a very cold Vienna and decided to have a look around until lunchtime! We even saw some snow!!

We then headed to the train station to get the train to Budapest. The train journey was 3 hours so we arrived at 5pm to a verr, very cold Budapest!
The train station is next to the Nep Stadium where Queen played back in 1986 so I was very excited to see that!

We got the metro (which was more like an underground tram) to our hotel near the Octogan and checked in. Had dinner at TGI Fridays which has very slow service and not very nice food then off we went to the Rock Renduvu club to see the fantastic Queen Unplugged Project! Terry and I have seen them before at the Freddie Memorial Weekend in Montreux and they were brilliant! They are also playing at the Queen convention in March!

They gave us a lovely welcome and intoduced us on stage!! :) They played a brilliant set inlcuding a fantastic performance of Great King Rat!

We are looking forward to seeing the band and their friends at the convention soon! :)

Woke up at 10 and had some free breakfast in the club lounge then had a look at the view of the palace from our hotel window!

Spent the morning looking round Bratislava in the cold and also went to Tesco (!!) get some new shoes for Terry. I had no idea Tesco was taking over Eastern Europe and it was more like a department store than a UK Tesco! At lunchtime, we got the train from Bratislava to Vienna which only took an hour. We then got another train to the other main station in Vienna and our hotel was just next door!

We stayed in the Hilton but didn’t stay in the room for too long as we had to go on the hunt for our ‘We Will Rock You’ tickets! There was nobody at the ticket desk of the first place we tried so we walked through the city in the snow! I had a bratwurst hot dog on the way which was a sausage in a baguette type roll with the centre removed!

We found another ticket shop outside the Opera House but the lady there told us the tickets had already been printing so we should collect them at the theatre!

We then went to a lovely restaurant close to our hotel called Plachutta. Terry had traditional Tafelspitz which is boiled beef and I had Wiener schnitzel! The dinner arrived in lots of little pots and it was lovely!!

We went back to the hotel, got changed and got on the underground to go to see the We Will Rock You musical!! We managed to pick up our tickets and went into the theatre. We had a glass of wine in the lovely bar (much nicer than the Dominion Theatre) then went to find our seats. They were up in the first circle and we had a good view! The show is mainly in German, all the speaking bits are in German and some of the songs.

Radio Ga Ga – German
I Want to Break Free – Galileo (German)
I Want to Break Free (reprise) – Scaramouche (English)
Somebody to Love – German
Killer Queen – German
Play the Game – German
Under Pressure – English
A Kind of Magic – ?
I Want It All – English
Headlong – English
No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young) – German
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – English
One Vision – German/English
Who Wants to Live Forever –
Flash –
Seven Seas of Rhye –
Fat Bottomed Girls –
Don’t Stop Me Now –
Another One Bites the Dust –
Hammer to Fall –
These Are the Days of Our Lives – English
Headlong (reprise) –
We Will Rock You – English
We Are the Champions – English
Bohemian Rhapsody – English

The show was brilliant and I did manage to understand what was going on even though I don’t know any German. I have seen the London one a few times and the script is similar although some of the jokes were about famous German people instead!

We flew from Bristol on the Ryanair flight to Bratislava after having a relaxing glass or two of wine in the lounge! The flight was just over 2 hours and arrived in Bratislava at 9.30pm. By the time we had got a taxi to the hotel and checked in, it was 10pm. We stayed in the Crowne Plaza and got a free upgrade so had use of the lounge so went for a few free drinks. We then headed to the Casino where Terry lost all his money!! We were too late for dinner so pigged out on pizzas from the room service menu at 1am!

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