Percy's Pointless Pictures

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Day 6 of the Vienna Holiday

To be quite honest, I wasn't looking forward to today, for we were off to see one of the 4 "The Third Man" exhibitions dotted around the city, which involves going into the actual sewers, and standing in the same chamber where these particular scenes were filmed.

As I've mentioned before, I've never actually seen the film. My only knowledge of it, is the music, and that's mainly because there used to be a "Picadilly Bar" ice cream van that travelled Hartlepool that used the "Third Man" theme as its chimes. It always struck me as a bit odd, as it always seemed a bit of a dark film to advertise such a cheery product.

I went downstairs to find Jonathan in the reception, hovering over the computers trying to book the tickets. It seemed a pretty long, drawn out process just to book tickets, but then, this was the only English tour for this day, and it was at 1PM.

It gave us enough time for us to get ready, and also to don suitable clothing (there was no way I was going in my bestest Slazenger T-shirt). The walk from the hotel, to the sewer was, to say the least, painful. the blisters on the previous day had pretty much doubled in size, and putting pressure on my feet was agonizing. Still, we made it there, Jonathan handed over our booking reservation, and we awaited around for the tour to start. Chris was looking forward to it the least. He disappeared for a drink of water in a nearby shop, and I didn't think he was going to come back. Amazingly, he did.