Wine Festival

Wednesday night we met up with some of Roman's friends and went to a wine festival in a nearby town. It was called the festival of a thousand wines and all of the local wine regions had tents where you could get tastes. It was pretty cool. They had lots of good food too like pretzels and pastries. One food which was really cool was these potato chips which were made by putting a potato on a drill which spins the potato against a blade. This results in paper thin chips which are deep fried and served hot. They were probably some of the best potato chips I have ever had.
There was also a relatively famous band playing Austrian folk music. They were dressed almost like Vegas lounge singers and the music was pretty bad. Roman and his friends thought so too. They said that this sort of music is what the Austrian equivalent of rednecks listen to.
On the way home we stopped at a dive bar near Roman's house. I really had fun tonight not because we did anything super exciting, but because I got to do what Austrians my age do for fun at night. It was a cool experience. That was the experience I had for my entire time in Vienna. I felt I got a local's perspective of Viennese culture.