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Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 8th 2005

well, haven't i been the little cultural butterfly!! today is technically my last day in vienna as i leave at 8am tomorrow. this week has flown by and i have no idea what i've done!! the evenings have been quite busy doing all the artsy stuff. monday night i went to the operetta (a gilbert and sullivan type performance). best thing ever - we went early-ish to get tickets, and we had the nicest ticket box lady. she gave us tickets for half price, even though neither of us were students. then we got shown to our seats...... our own private box thank you very much!! like in Pretty Woman. it was soooo cool. the operetta was really good, well done, apart from the fact that it was in german and we had no idea what ... read more

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 8th 2005

Este 8 de junho, quarta-feira, era o nosso último da na Áustria. Comemos alguma coisa perto do albergue e caminhamos até a Westbahnhof, onde pegamos o metrô até a estação da Karlsplatz. Parênteses: fiquei em Viena 3 dias e não consegui deixar de ficar admirado com a beleza da cidade! É como se houvesse uma lei proibindo a existência de prédios feios ou mal conservados, parece tudo muito harmônico e perfeito. Espetacular! Fechemos os parênteses. Resolvemos passar pela Ópera mais uma vez para tirarmos algumas fotos, pois já era noite quando tínhamos passado por ela no dia anterior e ela ficava meio no caminho para o Complexo de Hofburg. Viena é uma cidade perfeita pra ser explorada a pé. A maioria das atrações fica muito perto uma da outra e, mesmo quando isso não acontece, o ... read more
Louça do casamento imperial

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 8th 2005

Saímos do Hofburg e fizemos nosso último passeio pelo centro de VIENA, passando mais uma vez pela querida Stephansplatz. Não resisti e pedi pro Márcio tirar mais uma foto minha lá. O plano era seguir para CESKY KRUMLOV, no sul da REPÚBLICA TCHECA, onde já tínhamos reserva no Traveller´s Hostel. O trem sairia às 18h e chegaria lá às 23:15. Tudo certo, tínhamos que matar um tempinho ainda antes do embarque. Fizemos um almoço-janta no Burger King e seguimos para a estação. No entanto, acabamos tendo um pequeno contratempo, que mandou por água abaixo nossos planos: erramos a estação de trem!!! Isso mesmo!!! Não me lembro agora qual era a certa e qual era a errada, mas trocamos as estações, a Sudbahnhof e a Westbahnhof, e perdemos o trem. O pior é que era o último ... read more
Nem tudo são flores...

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 7th 2005

Acordei e, depois de um bom banho, saímos pra comer alguma coisa antes de começarmos o 12º dia da viagem. Paramos numa espécie de café e eu comi um bom sanduíche de schnitzel. O Schnitzel é um dos mais tradicionais pratos da cozinha austríaca e corresponde, basicamente, ao nosso "à milanesa". O que eu comi era de porco, mas eu também vi com carne de boi. A carne era boa, mas o sanduíche ficou um pouco seco. Faltou um molhinho ou algo do gênero. O dia estava frio e o principal programa era conhecer o Palácio de Schönbrunn, nos arredores de Viena. Apesar de não ficar dentro da cidade, é possível ir de metrô até lá (aliás, acho que dá pra ir de metrô pra qualquer lugar em Viena! A cidade não é grande e a ... read more
Gloriette
Karlskirche
Fonte de Netuno nos jardins do palácio

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 6th 2005

Chegamos em VIENA, na ÁUSTRIA, por volta das duas da tarde. Fomos caminhando até a Wombats, o albergue onde ficaríamos hospedados, por 18 euros cada um por noite. A Áustria seria o primero país na nossa viagem a usar o Euro, então já esperávamos encontrar preços mais caros por aqui. O albergue ficava extremamente perto da Westbahnhof, uma das estações de trem da cidade, e lá havia uma estação de metrô, então nossa locomoção por Viena seria muito fácil. A Wombats tinha uma estrutura muito boa e bem maior que a dos albergues em que havíamos nos hospedado até então. Era um prédio mesmo, de 4 ou 5 andares, com elevador e até mesmo um bar com mesa de sinuca e tudo mais. Deixamos as coisas lá e saímos pra explorar a cidade. Tomamos o metrô ... read more
Complexo de Hofburg
Neues Rataus, a Prefeitura de Viena
Burgtheater

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 5th 2005

well, vienna is lovely, lovely, lovely. i was told it was pretty boring but so far have had lots of fun and done a few things too!! went to see the vienna boys choir this morning - had to get up at 7am though!! it was worth it! they were awesome. so cute in their little sailor costumes. may go to the opera tonight with a group of busabout people and then the ballet on tuesday with a girl i met in paris. it's such a nice city. all the people are soooo good looking and very fashionable!! i feel like such a dag. oh well, what can you do when you're travelling. ... read more

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna June 3rd 2005

here i am in the lovely austria. i´ve been looking forward to coming, so i´m glad i´m here!! only arrived last night. so haven´t done much so far. the rest of my time in cesky was good. had a couple of very fun nights - so made the most of the cheap czech republic. my cesky present was a pair of pretty earrings. oh, my prague present was a hair clip to keep my hair somewhat controlled!!!! that´s about it for now. sorry nothing very interesting today. ... read more

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna May 30th 2005

Hello Happy People! Here I am in Vienna; the last stop on my big holiday. By this point in the trip the cold I had woken up with back in Prague is taking its’ toll and I'm really not feeling well. I'm certain I did not get as much out of my Vienna stop as I would have if I had been feeling better. All things considered, I think I got a taste of the city. Dinner in the Vienna Woods where we sample the Heurigen (wine from the last grape harvest), a visit to Schonbrunn Palace and it’s gardens, a city tour with a stop St. Stephens Cathedral, it seems like so much already. But, no, there’s more. Shopping, where I bought nothing. I’m afraid my only souvenir from Vienna is the rubber ducky I ... read more
Schonbrunn Palace
Schonbrunn Palace Gardens
Neptune Fountain at Schonbrunn Palace

Europe » Austria May 22nd 2005

On the second day of my vacation, I proceeded to fight my way through the Italian Alps, bypassing the Passo Di Stelvio because I think that 500 hairpins in 11 kilometers is a wee bit much. Passing Bozeno, I made my way to the chi chi Italian ski resort of Cortina D’Ampezzo. I think Giacomo Agostini has a home here. No matter how many times you see them, the Dolomites never fail to impress. They shoot out of the earth like giant T-Rex teeth ripping the sky to shreds. Did I mention I loved Italy? You could spend years between the Alps and the Appenines and never run out of roads to ride. Austria is like some strange other-world where gas station attendants resemble doctoral candidates back in the U.S. Motorists don flourescent orange vests just ... read more

Europe » Austria » Vienna » Vienna May 21st 2005

After Venice it was off to Austria- you can kind of see the crazy pace we've been following!! It was another long driving day and after checking out the city center it was time for bed! After getting up early we did a walking tour of the historical sites: various palaces and statues. As well as most importantly SHOPPED! The shopping was great here, as well as in Venice... wow you'd think these euros were burning holes in our pockets- but so far so good. You may have notice our entries are getting shorter, mainly because in some of these places we only have around 8 hours to see the whole city, so in Vienna we basically did shopping and then checked out one other major site, St. Stephens Cathedral (Der Weiner Stephensdem, or something llike ... read more
Holocaust Memorial
St. Stephens
Palace




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