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Published: August 8th 2007
St. Stephen´s Church
I couldn´t get a really good picture of this because all the buildings were too close, but look at the roof. I just love the little details like this.
Julie J Vanover When I got to my hostel they had overbooked and so I got a private room with a double bed all to myself for the same price as a dorm! Wow! I was in heaven, but they were booked out the next night so I would only have one day to explore Vienna. So I hit the ground running and was very shocked with how much ground I covered and how beautiful Vienna was. When I went through my pictures I was so suprised at how many there were and how beautiful they all were. I arrived in Vienna and my first thought was it´s cold. I had grown more accustomed to tempuratures in the 90´s and it was in the 50´s. I guess that there was a cold streak that came through for 24 hours and I just happened to be in Vienna when it happened. It snowed in Switzerland so I guess I should just be happy I didn´t have snow. Although it would have been interesting to go from 95 in Budapest to snow 5 hours away. So I layered up as much as I could until I felt like a snowman. I took the subway to
Town Hall
See what I mean, why couldn´t we have more of these in America. I guess without empires and stuff it can make it a little harder. St. Stephen´s Church and it was huge and beautiful. It had a decorated slate roof- I don´t know that the name for the style is but I like it.
I wandered to the Hofburg Palace which too was lovely and huge, there were so many buildings and gardens in and around the area. I went through more gardens and a rose garden to the Opera House. And then through another garden to the Town Hall which was massive and impressive. I just wonder why we don´t have beautiful town halls like this in America. As I walked through Vienna I started to remember some of it´s history and had a much better understanding of all of the grandeur around it. I didn´t really read up on it very much so I was very pleasantly suprised by it.
Throught the rest of the gardens to the Parliment Building and then past their Museum section, and I lastly ended up at St. Charles Church which was very beautiful in it´s self. But there was a pool in front of the church that perfectly reflected the church, so as if the church wasn´t beautiful enough you got 2 for the price
of one. Wow- I wish that I could have seen it at night because they light it up, and with the reflection it would have been even more breathtaking.
I returned to my hostel, very pleased with my whirlwind tour of Vienna but wishing that I had longer to see it all because I by no means saw even close to everything. I just really got a taste of Vienna, so this city is very much on my list of cities to see more of. I returned to my hostel and fell asleep and slept for almost 10 hours. Wow, I sure needed a quiet private room! Very nice, except I slept through my train to Cesky Krumlov. Oh well, there´s always the next one.
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Beautiful buildings in Vienna. Loved the blue dome on St. Charles church and the Treble Clef out of flowers is so cute. Glad you enjoyed Vienna.