Thursday, November 12, 2009

Vienna








So after a quick stop in Hallstadt, we caught a train to Vienna. Once we got off at the train stop, then we had to find the correct subway to catch, and then we had to track down a taxi after that just to make our way to the hotel. When we settled down, we headed back out. We it took us an hour or so just to catch the local bus into town. The fun part is when you dont know where into town that you want to go and you dont know how to tell the bus driver where it is you want to go and once you two come up with an idea, you dont know when to get off the stop cuz city buses dont have signs telling you where you are... Oh well. Then we we got off (you realize that early afternoon, cold and rainy, it's pretty dark), you wander around the first street you guess to walk down. We never really knew what it was we were looking at. I was a little miserable walking around that afternoon and the next day (especially the next day when I was carrying a heavy bag and pulling my new luggage on wheels). I was ready for the trip to be done. I would perk up every time we got to go inside bars and coffee houses. But I was tired, sore, worn out, cold, in pain, all the bad feelings. We'd sit down in some place warm and stay in for a while. I will say, the food was good! I had this dark chocolate cappuccino and the traditional and even better tasting apple strudel with vanilla sauce, and then, apparently, on the day of Nov 11, it is necessary to have goose. So I had unbelievable goose in a fabulous sauce. I was stuffed!!! But the food was wonderful. That was in the Mozart Cafe. We wandered around the rest of the afternoon until going to the airport. The city was nice. We just didnt get great weather, which is unfortunate when you're lugging around heavy baggage. I think there would be a good amount of things to do, but we pretty much just did some looking from the outside. That was fine. At that point, like I said, I was ready to go home anyways. When we got to the airport, I did get myself Vienna sausages! Haha. You know I love my vienna sausages, but it's not the same thing! Haha. It was very tasty.

Over all, I never got a chance to go to a nice restaurant to have great food. But I did get some good food. It's just a shame that we couldnt do that. And as you've figured out, I wasnt a fan of carrying my luggage constantly and have not the best transportation over all. I prefer the tour bus and next time I will look into that instead. What I looked at was cool and the food was pretty good. The few things we got to do were cool. And I'd definitely go again. Even in cold rainy weather. It was pretty and enjoyable minus the hardships! haha...

The pictures are just pictures of things I saw outside.

1 comment:

  1. Wow! What great pics and videos. I especially like the video that you narrated and did your "Vanna White" thing while you were in the Alps! The pictures of Neushwanstein brought back so many memories! I loved my visit there when we lived in Germany. Great blog - thanks for posting it!!

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