Austin - The self proclaimed "live music" capital of the US.
Mike (ordering in a restaurant): I'll have the 16 ounce prime rib steak thanks.
Waiter: Sorry Sir, all out of beef steak but we do have chicken fried steak.
Mike: Okay I'll have that then.
Ten minutes later...
Zan: You look like someone just shot your dog.
Mike: I think I just ate the dog.
Mike and Zan:
You would think in Texas it would not be hard to get a good steak. You could not be more wrong. We spent 4 days trying to find an edible slice of beef with no luck. Mike did however manage to get food poisoning from the suspicious chicken-like substance mentioned in the above dialogue.
People in the hostel where we were staying raved to us about the great live music scene in Austin. Our only experience of this 'great live music' was a tone deaf twang during karaoke night at a local restaurant. We missed the city's great music festival South by South-West by three days :-(
Texas has changed hands a few times during its history and at one time it was actually an independent state. We took a tour of the Capital building (the equivalent of state Parliament House). The tour guide mentioned on several occasions that the Texas building was taller that the one in Washington D.C.
Unfortunately we have no pictures of Austin as they were locked in the dorm room of the hostel where we were staying. It was a bit like being a school with curfews, specific lights out times and a strict no fun after 11pm policy. Once you left the building in the morning (which had to be before 8am) you were not allowed back in until 5pm that night. On the up side the hostel was a lovely building on the edge of a lake and next to a park.
Waiter: Sorry Sir, all out of beef steak but we do have chicken fried steak.
Mike: Okay I'll have that then.
Ten minutes later...
Zan: You look like someone just shot your dog.
Mike: I think I just ate the dog.
Mike and Zan:
You would think in Texas it would not be hard to get a good steak. You could not be more wrong. We spent 4 days trying to find an edible slice of beef with no luck. Mike did however manage to get food poisoning from the suspicious chicken-like substance mentioned in the above dialogue.
People in the hostel where we were staying raved to us about the great live music scene in Austin. Our only experience of this 'great live music' was a tone deaf twang during karaoke night at a local restaurant. We missed the city's great music festival South by South-West by three days :-(
Texas has changed hands a few times during its history and at one time it was actually an independent state. We took a tour of the Capital building (the equivalent of state Parliament House). The tour guide mentioned on several occasions that the Texas building was taller that the one in Washington D.C.
Unfortunately we have no pictures of Austin as they were locked in the dorm room of the hostel where we were staying. It was a bit like being a school with curfews, specific lights out times and a strict no fun after 11pm policy. Once you left the building in the morning (which had to be before 8am) you were not allowed back in until 5pm that night. On the up side the hostel was a lovely building on the edge of a lake and next to a park.
posted by Mike & Zan :-) | 4:02 am
1 Comments:
Yeah... those aren't the hostel rules at all.
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