Speedway Flyer, Volume 30, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1961 — Page 3

Thursday, November 16, 1961

< Sue Todd Reports (Continued from Page 1) to cross Czechoslovakia and go to Berlin. I think Paddy and I will go all the way. Everyone else is, t4o. We talked to the American Consulate officials, travel agency, and lES staff members and they said it was perfectly all right to go to Berlin and were not in the least set against talking us out of it. So we obtained rail tickets, round trip, for only $25. We got them at a reduced price since there are so many of us going. We will leave Wednesday morning and arrive in Berlin that night. I suppose it is about a 50 mile trip. Isn’t it something to travel 1000 miles for only $25. Paddy and I are really looking forward to the trip. I think it will tse a great experience. It will be good to get away from this big city living. As much as I like Vienna, it sure is good to get out areaway from it. didn’t realize that Vienna was such a big city. We haven’t begun to see it yet. There is so much to see and so many places to go. Downtown at the State Opera, there is a big opera every single night. These Viennese really go for their music. They will get up in the early morning hours and wait in line to get tickets.. At this Opera house it is usually sold out every night. They go for music as the Hoosiers go all out for basketball. As of yet I haven’t been. Since I have all year I’m not rushing things. In the meantime I can brush up and polish the German and then maybe I can understand a few of the operas. Vienna not only has this big opera but many other music houses, operettas, philharmonic orchestra, and on and on. It is certainly a city overflowing with music and culture. There are so many students from all over the world studying music here. Where the lES students eat is a student dormitory. These are only music students many of who play the piano. They each have a piano in their room. I talked to one boy from Canada at lunch one day. He told me that he practiced nine hours on the piano the day before. I can’t imagine being that devoted. By the end of the year, I should have my fill of music. Last night (Wednesday) Paddy, Louise and I went to an organ concert. It was held at St. Stephen’s Church, a very big and beautiful church in downtown Vienna. The organ was a huge pipe organ. Classical music, not church music, was played. This coming Sunday, October 29, Paddy, Louise and I are going to church and hear the famous Vienna Boys Choir. We have to buy tickets Friday evening or we Swill never get a seat. Each Sunday the church is packed to hear them. They are soon leaving on a tour to America. Most likely they will be on the Ed Sullivan show sometime in December. There are many beautiful Catholic cathedrals here which date back centuries. Did I tell you about the monastery that we visited on our trip to Vienna? It was called Maria Loch. It is situated in the mountains not far from the Rhine River. What a beautiful location! We attended an evening vesper service in which many of the monks participated. The monk who showed us about the grounds was an American. He was about 30 years old and came from Boston. We were all impressed by him.

I am so cold while writing this letter. We haven’t had the heat turned on yet. Both Paddy and I are ready for it. We do all of our reading and studying in bed because we have a big warm comforter to put over us! The weather is similar to our late November weather. We are to go to the Alps on December 23. We don’t know exactly where yet, but will let you know soon. October 31, I thought that I should write and tell you my change of plans. We won’t be going to Berlin after the recent developments in the last couple of days. When we purchased our tickets a week ago, the travel agency, consulate and lES said it was perfectly all right to go. But yesterday morning we got a report that we shouldn’t go because we would be putting ourselves and the United States government at odds. There were 25 of us going. Up to now though the Berlin crises has not been blown up in the European papers. The Americans are so much more worried about it than the Europeans. Really the atmosphere has been quite different here over Berlin than at home! Since our Berlin plans have been canceled we are not sure what we will do. Paddy and I might go to a southern Austrian mountain town and rest up. I received my Hanover yearbook. I am so happy that you sent it. Paddy thought it might make me homesick or school sick, but it didn’t, it gave me a lift. Thank you very much. November 4, here we are in Italy. Paddy and I are at the Trieste train station waiting for our train back to Vienna. The past four days “have been quite exciting.

The day before we left, Paddy had the flu and we hadn’t decided where to go. So I trudged to the Austrian travel bureau and asked about different resorts in the mountains. They suggested one not far from Vienna called Semmering. The following day Paddy (feeling somewhat better) and I hopped on a 11:40 a.m. train headed for Semmering. It was a two hour ride there. The trains are really cheap in Austria and don’t have bad accommodations. No sooner had we sat down when some good looking fellow asked to sit with us. He sat down and asked us to help him with his English. He had homework from school to do. So we helped him.

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Another Austrian guy came and sat down too. We had quite a conversation evidently, because we almost talked through our train stop. They helped us off the train with the luggage and we waved goodbye to them. The countryside was beautiful. We were in the mountains and it was so pretty with all the fall colors. It was a little colder than it had been in Vienna. We got a taxi and went to a Pension. A Pension is like an inn small, comfortable and cheap. We had a nice room but no heat! The view from our window was magnificent. I grabbed my camera and madly started taking pictures. After one night we decided to go to Italy. The

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Pension was nice but lonely since it was out of season yet. We decided to take a midnight train the next evening and have another day to explore the mountains. Semmering is not a city but just a place with hotels and pensions on the mountains. We moved our luggage to the train station and spent the day and evening walking about. We went to a ski lift which took us to the top of a mountain. It took 15 minutes to get to the top. What a ride! Straight up all the way! All the ski lift was—was a small swinglike chair. It took the breath out of me. Once we got to the top we had a beautiful view for miles. After we came back down, we

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went to a German movie and strained ourselves to understand it Then we ate a good warm meal because we had a 30 minute downhill walk to the train station. We made it to the train station with three hours to spare. So we found a warm case near by and spent a wild time there! At first we proceeded to play cards. Soon a crowd gathered around us. They were interested and attracted to us since they soon found out we were Americans. All were men except for the lady owner. One man showed us some card tricks. When that became boring, they asked us to dance. We danced all sorts of dances polka, jitter-bug, and many others. It was a gay, but harmless evening. Two of the men carried our luggage and took us to the train. We arrived in Trieste around 10:00 a.m. It is a beautiful city situated on the Adriatic Sea. We walked along the seashore all afternoon and felt very refreshed. The Italian food was a welcome change from the sauerkraut and wiener schnitzel! We had a delicious dinner last night consisting of ravioli, salad, and fried cheese. The temperature was about thirty degrees warmer than in the mountains. But today a cold rain blew in from the sea and spoiled our chance to explore in the afternoon. All in all, we have had a good holiday and lots of fun. Now back to Vienna and mid-semester exams. We have a twelve hour train ride to Vienna. We will probably sleep all way. Auf Wiedersehen. Love, Sue

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