Living in Vienna is wonderful set of books (lent to us by the Morgans), from which we have learned everything we know, and will continue to pull all useful knowledge from. They are lifesavers and we'd be lost without them. I started to list some specifics we've found in here, but I just can't do it. You name it, they've got all you'd need to know about it. We love them. I know they will be talked about again, and they will be henceforth be referred to as "the Books".
Map of the Subway lines. We live off the U6.
These signs are almost like an oasis in the desert sometimes. This means that right below you is a U station, and it's helped us find our way a few times.
This is a speed limit sign. It means 30 kilometres per hour.
SPAR is the most economically friendly chain of supermarkets. There are SPAR, INTERSPAR and EUROSPAR stores. This one happens to be like 50m from our house. Also, you will never find one of these open later than 8 o'clock. That's one important thing you should know about Vienna. Everything around here shuts down really early. Most things at 6pm, and when you're lucky you can find stuff open til 8, but anything open after 8 is usually the kind of place you would never want to find yourself in anyway.
These (plus an Evian water bottle) are the only familiar things I came home with on grocery trip number one. PS I did not get Evian because I am a water snob, only because here in Vienna the big this is sparkling water. It's almost hard to escape it, and Evian was the only name I recognized and could be sure was still and did not contain alcohol.
That's another thing. Alcohol is everywhere! It's strange to not order a drink before or with dinner. They actually sell it right in the grocery stores all over. It takes up more space than juice and water usually.
A breakfast in Austria typically consists of bread, jam and coffee. THe selection of jam in the grocery store is virtuously endless. There is also a large selection of honey and spreads, like Nutella. There is hardly any peanut butter though.
This is the selection our grocery store has, and our's is a big one. That empty spot is for Skippy Peanut Butter, which have not tried yet because it's really expensive and hasn't been in stock the last few times we've looked. I miss Kraft :(
BIPA looks like a cute little cosmetics shop, but it's actually just a normal drug store. It'd be similar to a Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada, but without a pharmacy.
This is about the closest thing to plain white toilet paper we found in the grocery store. They have some of every colour, and we even saw one with a Hello Kitty pattern. Our bums will be grateful to get back home though because softness and comfort is not something they value here in toilet paper, as much as home at least.
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