What happened after the PC2?

On Friday the 12th of December I had my second >Progress Check< for english and afterwards I needed some relaxing time with a friend and fellow student of my english class. We said we would go to the christmas market in Graz at the Hauptplatz but getting our mulled wine wasn't so easy. 

The beginning

After we successfully finished the PC2 we wanted to have a drink together and have a chat with each other on one of the many christmas markets of Graz. Since the PC2 ended at around 10 p.m. it was really hard to even get there, since most busses weren't driving anymore at that time. 

Hauptplatz Graz

After 30 minutes of waiting time at the bus stop, we finally made it into the fully crowded bus and drove to the Jakominiplatz in Graz. Then we thought we would get a mulled wine right away but we descovered that this market was already closed by the time we reached it. We continued walking to the Hauptplatz and as expected, everything there was closed as well. Unfortunately it was already 10 p.m. so it was to be expected. 

But we didn't give up and continued our journey. 

The place of hopes

As we continued walking and looking for a pub or something similar to a christmas market where we could get our mulled wine, we heard some electronic music, which was really terrible to listen to, we followed.

As soon as we found the place we hoped to get our mulled wine, we were happy. It was a very tiny market with only 4 shops to get a drink from. We finally got our mulled wine and then were completely dissappointed. It tasted awful. It tasted like just normally brewed up wine with sugar.

We put them down and continued trying to find a pub then, where we could have a drink.

The long walk

We walked down from the Hauptplatz back to the main station in hopes to find a place where we could have a drink together. On both sides of the street we couldn't find 1 pub. Once we reached the main station we got hungry and forgot about our mulled wine and tried to find a restaurant or something similar we can get food from.

For our happiness, we failed as well trying to find a place where we could eat something together. We tried restaurants, which had open until 11 p.m. but didn't serve us, we tried finding cafés, which also had open quiet a long time but once we reached there they had closed by then, and our last attempt of getting food was McDonalds, and guess what, it had closed.

Rondo

As we stood there, fully disappointed that even McDonalds had closed, we decided to give it one more attempt and looked for a few cafés etc. online. We thought we found something so we drove with the bus to the Lendplatz and tried to find it. We failed.

That was it, we had enough and decided to go back to the main station and walk home. As we walked down the street we descovered "Rondo". It seemed that people were sitting in there eating and drinking, so we gave it one last attempt. 

The end

We entered the bar / restaurant (we have no idea what this place was), and finally got to have a drink together, it wasn't anything alcoholic but still. We asked if they got some food as well and the waiter told us they wouldn't serve any food past 11 p.m. so we asked if he could suggest us a place where we could get a snack from. As you might guess, he couldn't.

We decided to have our drink and then go home but the waiter was so kind and offered to make us 2 sandwhiches. Of course we accepted his offer and once he was gone making it, we thought it wouldn't be much of a big meal, just a tiny snack. Once he came back we were totally surprised of the (almost) meal we got. It was delicious. 

Once we had finished our midnight snack (yes, we ate it a exactly 12 a.m.), we gave him a generous amount of tip and walked home.

What a journey!