Blogs from Vienna, Austria, Europe - page 127

Tuesday (Temp. -2deg. Overcast) Lovely breakfast room, pink tablecloths (& pink decorations on Christmas tree in lobby!) Rugged up in 5 layers including thermals. Walked along MariahilferStrasse, main shopping street to old city & beautiful buildings. Vienna is the most beautiful city we've seen. Snow all over ground in old city, people very normal. Bought a bust of Mozart. Too cold to really appreciate buildings, tagged along behind a few tour groups (lots of them!). Saw horse drawn buggies. Snowed very lightly on us. Went into St Stephen's Cathedral and christkindlmarkt at old town hall. Didn't stay out long, too cold! Back to hotel at 12:45pm, had a coffee & beer at bar to thaw out. Went to supermarket to stock up for today & tomorrow (Christmas day). We were given a brochure for concerts tonight ... read more

I remember the chocolate boobs.... read more

Well it seems most of my travelling is done when it is very cold. This was also the case on my first trip to Vienna. Like all my trips there is usually a reason why I end up going to one place or the other. This trip was no different. It started because we needed a place to go and see while Mike was in Germany. No sooner had he arrived than we were out of work. This left us free to go and do whatever we wanted for the two weeks he was there. Dave from the Old Dublin used to work in a place called Molly Darcy's in Vienna. As such he had been telling us all to go and check it out since he arrived in Germany around when we did. Did any ... read more

Day 15 I'm not dead. I'm not dead!! Woohoo! I am not dead!!! The almighty vengeful one did not take me out in my sleep. The glorious sun, created no doubt by a glorious God (or god-like invisible friend), sauntered in, poked me in the head and handed me the good news. Wow! I am amazed. It turns out that my prayers and pleas for forgiveness have been answered after all. Despite telling his divine zombies to piss off and take a holy hike, he has allowed me to continue my existence. I guess there are still grains of sand left in my hourglass of time. He wants me to continue. I feel so blessed. He wants me to travel the globe, to hang out in his many houses, to drink beer from all of the ... read more

Geo: 48.2092, 16.3728The Honeymoon ... Had a lovely time in Vienna, stayed in our friend CM's place & met his future (Swiss) wife but then he had to go away for work so we had his apt. to ourselves -it was good but it geared towards older people and the bloody shops close really early on a Saturday or only open the 1st Saturday of the month or something so that needs to be taken into acocunt when you planning any itinerary there. Coffee house culture is good there, the trams are ace & no. 1 & 2 get all the sights in, and U-bahns are easy, Habsburgs' summer residence Schönbrunn is fab (I think this is generally thought to be the better residence & it is good). And Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss are all buried ... read more