I'm sitting with Andi at Vienna Airport enjoying a melange and free, non-proxied wireless internet. The flight was as smooth and uneventful as one could have hoped.

It seems to be the same deal here with public transportation and airports as with many cities these days: there is a shiny new privately owned transportation that is prominently advertised. Here it began already in the shuttle bus from the plane to the arrivals hall and continued with omnipresent, bright-green vending machines for the CAT service - from the airport to downtown Vienna in 16 minutes (for EUR 9). And then, there is the "traditional" transportation, neatly tucked away and out of sight to anyone who doesn't know what they're looking for. We looked round but found nothing.

But after asking two (quite friendly) machinepistol wielding guards they told us, that the vending machines for the regular public transportation are located directly at the platform - turns out, a ticket into town costs three(!) euros and the trip takes 24 minutes.

And if we hadn't managed to get totally lost on our way back to the terminal we'd be downtown already, but instead we treated ourselves to a break - at least now we know the way ;-)

Andi has aquired a map of free wifi hotspots in Vienna and there will be WLAN at the conference, of course so I'm afraid I'll be posting lots of non-sense like this entry over the next three days... you have been warned.