Hollywood in Vienna (October 4th, 2013) with James Horner

Sure, I'll be arriving on wednesday as well, still not sure if I will leave on saturday or sunday; have you already booked a flight to london?

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Make sure you give him my best wishes, it's been over a decade since I last saw him.

It's not impossible

I now booked this one-room apartment:

http://www.booking.com/hotel/at/vienna- … ailability

It's smack in the middle of downtown, 500 meters from the Stephan's Cathedral one way and 750 meters to the Konzerthaus the other way.

A bit nervous, as I've never booked an apartment like this before -- but hopefully, everything turns out OK in terms of deposits, key deliverance, cash payment etc.

Even though I hope to hang out with you (meaning Francis and Southall, unless I'm forgetting someone) during the entire stay, we should also try to organize a pre-concert dinner on Friday with people from FSM and JWFAN etc. as well. I also hope we can do the same in London. If no one takes this initiative, I will.

Not really (as I've skipped Krakow and Ghent this year....at least that's how it looks now), but we're planning a lot of film music goodies in that weekend, for sure!

I cancelled.

And I promise this is the last time I update you on this totally irrelevant information to everyone else.

I've seen THE 3rd MAN, Vienna looks right dodgy.

Sounds like a wise decision.

I wouldn't trust anything with zero reviews, even if it's on booking.com; you can always double check on google maps to see what reviews that turns up (often more truthful than the ones on booking ).

I don't know what your budget is, Thor, but Holly and I stayed at this hotel in Vienna last year during our post-Krakow zip around central Europe:

http://www.exeviennahotel.com/

It's on Ottakringer Strasse in a predominantly Serbian neighborhood, just to the west of downtown Vienna, on the wrong side of the Gurtel, but only 5 mins walk away from the Alser Strasse metro station (which has a McDonalds next door if you're craving something unhealthy!), with a very easy connection to St. Stephens Square, Prater Park, and everywhere else.

It was a nice, friendly hotel, very professional, and we didn't have any problems navigating our way around the city from there at all. I'd definitely recommend it if it's in your price range.

Here's a map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?rlz=1T4GGNI … MkBEPwSMAE

Took me long enough, but a new hotel search engine popped up -- trivago.no -- and through that I found a place to stay. So I've now booked there.

The hotel is Hotel Post Vienna -- located here:

https://maps.google.no/maps?q=fleischma … authuser=0

Only "hurdles" remaining now is to pay for the concert ticket itself (that James paid for) and that a prospective employer this autumn will deny the one-week trip. It's a 50-50 possibility.

Bregje, I know that the gala concert tickets for Friday are sold out, but maybe there are more for the additional concert they put in on Thursday (same program)?

I was wondering if we should arrange some sort of get-together before the concert on Friday? I can contact Marian Schedenig in Vienna, who should know some places to eat. The website doesn't show any time and James has the tickets, so when does the concert start?

By the way, I just looked at the videos on the website and the How To Train Your Dragon suite always puts tears to my eyes. Who was there that year, anyone here? Must have been amazing.

Yes please. Definitely up for a get-together (and there's the separate event that Jostein is organising, of course). The concert starts at 1930.

I really wish you could come too.