Vienna Brussels. pre trip MACHO MEN

Apart from the black sheep some other people have managed to make an impression. One group in particular is a group of macho friends with their wifes. They were very loud at the airport and during the briefing, but not in an annoying way. They got VERY loud during our Heurige trip tonight (a traditional wine drinking evening in Vienna) after they mixed beer and wine. They are not in my group so I did not hear them sing all the way back to the hotel, but apparently they had great fun singing ´God Bless America´and ´Proud to be an American´etc.

I am not sure yet what to think of them. They are fun and I really like playing with their macho thing. I took them to the first supermarket we encountered where they could be their six pack of the day. I joke back when they ask silly questions during the briefing if ´we will have fish rods on the ship´ as they want to go fishing. One of them has plenty tattoos and looks like a lifetime truck driver. Another one is the jester of the crowd. Another one has no manners and just asks ´where he can get American food´ (hello! try and taste local food) or why we wait so long after i just explained that there are two women who need to get on the bus from the airport but have some trouble with luggage and immigration. The logical reaction if he wouldn´t appreciate it if we waited on him in such a case, made him shut up.

They are the kind of people who will be dirnking a lot. I can joke with them, but they look really not the kind of tourists you want to mess around with. Their wifes are completly invisible, don´t drink at all or don´t sing along. It´s really an old men´s club with wifes. Not sure what that will give at the classical music concert tomorrow.