Our train arrived at the correct train station around the ungodly hour of 6am. The station hall, in the words of our Insight City Guide, is an “Art Nouveau structure…the ornate façade and the domed and decorative entrance hall remain very attractive.” However, as everyone actually arrives in the labyrinthine, Penn Station-wannabe basement, we still haven’t seen the main building to this day. Nonetheless, we were excited upon arrival, rolled our crap a mere one block over to our hotel, and were checked into our room in nine hours flat. Our burst of energy dissipated rapidly, despite the fact that I recalled sleeping well in our first-class compartment. My exhaustion was validated when April reminded me that we only slept about 4 ½ hours as we apparently over invested in to-go beers before boarding the train. Fortunately the lobby had a small room with two computer terminals offering free internet. Unfortunately, typing the @ symbol there is like attempting to locate the word “bling” in the King James Bible with Apocrypha. You see, it’s positioned as one of four options on the #2 key – not including #2 itself. I spent 15 minutes on the first computer trying to crack the code, but the best I could do through numerous multi-key permutations was come up with yet another symbol not even represented on the key. So I moved to the other computer and, go figure, a simple alt/ctrl/2 combo worked. After sifting through the three emails I’d received over the intervening five days, I woke April and off we went to see the city. Finally the cool temperature matched what all the guidebooks said (thus explaining why I’m in the same 2 short sleeve shirts in every damn Vienna and Budapest photo) so that was a treat. We came upon the main square and sat down at the fountain to get our bearings and soak up the rain.
False Promises
hahaha. i have the same problem when i first met the european keyboard. i believe the combo is shift/alt gr/@