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September 25, 2008

Next Vienna Day | # | My Journey — Administrator @ 4:50 pm

We decided to sleep in and go to breakfast once everyone was ready. Such planning should have been my red flag, it would be a long morning. Kelsey received a recommendation from a friend to visit the Grinzing, a wine cellar in the neighborhood north of Vienna. Combined with the point and the Lonely Planet walking tour through the different neighborhoods cellar, Kelsey and I were determined to spend our control Friday in Vienna wine gardens. With this in mind, we finally headed to breakfast at a place called "The Breakfast Club", which apparently served the kind of breakfast we all failed. The restaurant was open seats, but you could tell by the waitress’ face that they do not normally 10 games. We have returned to the menus to understand what we wanted, and were delighted to see waffles and bread gold! I ordered "Hell’s omlettes" that the waitress described as very spicy. I was almost certain that it would not be based on my (almost) months experience in Vienna. When omlettes the arrival
it was a simple egg and cheese combo with a few scattered red spices on top. It does not fade, but it was not very spicy. Any person who waffles were delighted to discover they were all heart-shaped and served with fresh fruit and syrup. We all enjoyed our breakfasts, but we knew before, it was almost 1pm. The breakfast group was not moving very fast, but Kelsey and I were determined to get a move on so that we can begin our tour of wine. In this case, we had to say goodbye to our classmates who were still poking around the restaurant, bolts and returned Simmering to take a little more than classmates who wanted to tag along. It was kind of cold that day, if we were happy to get jeans and jackets PitStop on our house. Nearly an hour and a half late to pick up our classmates, we found that they had (wisely) left without us. The wine tour was originally planned to a group, but now it was just us two. We followed Lonely Planet’s instructions to get to the point of departure for the visit, but the bus we were on
do not go to the stop we were supposed to descend. We headed back the way the bus arrived until we found a bus schedule. Is the line we were on different judgments based on what you have time on the bus, and we had only 5 minutes to wait to get on the right. The bus took us much further up the hill (the idea was to put an end to all areas on the way down) and dropped us off at the church on the hill, we visited the second day Vienna. Everyone was asleep at this point of our bus tour, it is not surprising that we never left where we were going together. We wandered around the stop for a while trying to figure out which way to go before we found their way on foot. We headed down the slope, Windy Hill, hoping that we were on track. A bus marked "Heurigen Tour" is past us, if we knew we must be close (Heurigen is the German word for cabaret). We have reached a crossroads that Lonely Planet told us to look out, we have followed the
directions. We found that we lead a very steep hill, which we walked down, thank God we were not going in the upstream direction. We found the first wine garden on the Tour, Hirt, but nobody seems to speak English. We got our wine and sat at a table. The view was incredible, even if the wine was diluted with water. Other customers were eating bread slices with a spread of sun-dried tomato cheese spread, and we were from hunger. Neither Kelsey or I knew how to ask the dish in German, and we did not have our Phrasebooks at hand. We thought of pointing to another client of the command if the server came by, but offered to each other to pay for food if the other would be for her. I decided to brave the cranky lady in the wine garden store, and I knew the German word for bread. I finished by the score of cheese spreads in the window of meats, and mimicking the spread of bread.Disappointed set the place did not live up to its potential, we called it a night and we we headed home.

January 21, 2008

Love Christmas in Vienna | # | My Journey — Administrator @ 3:45 pm

Christmas Markets, mulled wine, hats, gloves, scarves, I love winter and I love Christmas! So, for Christmas, they went to Vienna. Vienna is divided into 23 districts with the city centre being the first quarter, and then branches out from there. We stayed in the e Ringstra β (giant circle of the road) that circles the Inner Stadt (downtown). Our hotel is in an excellent location close to everything that we wanted to see. We arrived late on Saturday, he was at the hotel, a bar and then to bed. Sunday, we started the day by walking up and down Kärntner Stra e β, and then take pictures of Stephansdom (St. Stephen’s Cathedral), Albertina, the Hofburg Imperial Palace, and eventually find their way to our first market Christmas-Weihnachtsdörfer Wiener. I was so excited! All sites were nestled in woods Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum) and the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts) with a big statue of Empress Maria Theresa in the centre of the square. Each booth had a sign decorated with greenery and filled with all their goodies to buy. Of course, the first thing Koi had to do was take a cup of hot chocolate and rum:) We wandered

Through the stalls enjoying the climate before Christmas to be very, very cold, and head back to our hotel. To warm up a little, we took a ride in a team of horses and saw a little over Inner Stadt. We then stopped in the art gallery at the Albertina completely thaw and reheat. What an amazing visit. I was in. Picasso, Monet and Matisse. Crazy! A couple decided to donate their collection of art at the Albertina gallery and put it all at risk. They were the original artwork, and I could not believe that I was looking at them. There was also a modern art (70 and later), which was wonderful exhibition. Vienna is so full of fantastic art, but we could not get to everything. I can only keep Koi focuses on art for a short period of time before he gets antsy to go somewhere else. So many museums and galleries that we have admired from the outside.

Christmas Eve day we found ourselves wandering the Kärntner Stra e β this time with the shops open. For lunch, we found the Figlmüller where I received their famous Wiener Shcnitzel. Yummmy! I quite enjoyed the schnitzel. We have done our best to

The largest Christmas markets in Vienna, and the oldest-Wiener Christkindlmarkt. Koi where this time enjoyed a punsch strawberries (a hot alcoholic beverage). This market was by far my favorite. I had to buy some little trinkets to remember the market. We took some photos of Parliament on our way back. Each building has statues. Parliament was no exception. We stopped by the Hofburg, but it was already closed. In the evening, we had our first holiday meal. If someone takes a trip to Vienna we both highly recommend Eulennest. It is a small but beautiful. You do not know how he is really running on a normal basis, but for a holiday meal, it was fantastic! We heard, it is normally a wine bar. For dinner we enjoyed a bottle of wine and Austrian dishes 5-fabulous!

Christmas day we relaxed a little. We had been so walk in the cold that we decided not to be too adventurous. St Stephens Cathedral has been opened to see we had a little inside. We took a little walk, but it does not really go anywhere new. We stopped to take some pictures of

The Staatsoper (State Opera House). Christmas meal was very good but was unable to beat the previous night.

September 28, 2007

Next day in vienna | # | My Journey — Administrator @ 9:36 pm

For starters, when the first violinist wrote the stage, I went to applaud but carried out person of other beat on her arrival. I stopped soon, fearing steps of a forgery of commander in a foreign city. Just then, I heard the strong current footboards behind me, because the usher ran of the back of the hall and after the empty lines of the chairs. He stopped soon, just behind me, and began the applause that the assistances “of higher company” had not realized. It stop of didn´t to that. The aristocrats applauded the completely inadequate hours, stopping the symphony on several occasions, and caused with the driver the abnormal effort. And when the ballerinas and the vocalist left, it was complete chaos. They beat each time the male dancer carried out an excursion jete’, or all the times that the singers of opera entered or left the stage. It was as if the interpreters carried out for visually and to hear deteriorated. I was completely embarrassed to be a member of this now, uncultured of the assistances. And sure I´m that I resemble snob now, but if you will have temerity to shine with me and my wife´s vêtant before the event, are ensured to have the decency to you on the way in which to act during a professional execution. Moreover, I counted, and unquestionable AM, that Mozart was turned over in his tomb of mass 22 times during the event of evening´s. At least it was an even figure, thus it should face upwards. To move on…

September 17, 2007

Vienna - extra citybikes | # | My Journey — Administrator @ 11:30 am

Tuesday. After two days here in Vienna, I feel that I am to start right to include/understand the well of city enough to start to travel it intelligently.

We had hoped for this morning to test the remarkable system of CityBike of Vienna, where you can rent short-term bicycles with any of approximately 50 stations around the city and return them to the other. The first hour is free (!), and the second hour only one euro. When we started outside, however, the station that more close us had only one bicycle available, and while the day went on top never really is included/understood to cease employing the excellent underground and and the system of tram.

We began the morning with another interesting architectural lucky find. The gasometer is a whole of four gas-tanks of brick of the 1890 ‘ S which were reconstituted as the life/purchases/a space combined of office. The external detail was maintained, but each tank was renovated inside by a different architect. The complex includes the underground parking, a theatre and a shopping centre with the first and second levels, and offices and apartments above. This evening we left to the park recreation at Prater, since I insisted to assemble famous Riesenrad, where Joseph Cotten confronts Orson Welles at the third man. It is a beautiful wheel of ferris, with the external ring suspended by cables like rays of bicycle. After the darkness, we are sitted on the north right of grass of the park and observed the blue lights play above the design, and I thought again of the design pareillement beautiful of the gas-tanks of this morning, established around the same time. I am not sure it were really a simpler time, but I felt very reassured to begin and finish the day with such a traditional symmetry.

It is my last entry, because we leave tomorrow morning for Munich and then to the house. Thank you for the reading. I appreciated the test to go up my thoughts each evening, and I hope that you had pleasure to read them.

August 6, 2007

I love Vienna in the springtime. | # | My Journey — Administrator @ 1:06 pm

Hi Everyone 

 

I just want to share with you my adventures on the springtime trip to Vienna the capital of Austria - Friday night almost half the class came out to Kaktus to celebrate. Good times, good times.
Saturday I went out for 70 km; met an American cyclist who has been living in Vienna for 14 years and works in advertising. Sunday has exited for 45 kilometers; it has come to contact of cyclist an Irish who is living to Vienna for 18 years and works in security systems of the publicity. Later on the really pleasant park with the statue of Johann has come to contact of some types from code category to Stadtpark (Straus) where they were just rifinitura their game of basketball. Concluded to the champions with the all-you-pot-eat-ribbings. Sunday after that church arrested to the Donauinsel and picked a book for the code category following for 3 hours. Later on, we have come to contact still of the half of the code category for the lunch and drinks. As you can probably say to, a lot of distension was one fine week, more the time was large! The today is still a festivity (Pentacost) here therefore like for you (commemorative day.), I has crossed Vienna much calm in order to come to classify in one different construction. After that the code category Bernd & girlfriend the Sylvia select it in on in they automobile and we have gone to the ponds publics situates to you in the north of hills of Vienna. The time was large, the water was very well and the sight was incredible! Also while you are in the pond, you can see all the Vienna to scatter to you outside under.

 

Here the photo of famous Stefansdom in the 1st District of Vienna.

 STEFANSDOM,  VIENNA

 

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