Cake

Stop 1 - Vienna

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June 4th 2008
Stop 1 - Vienna The one plan I had for Vienna was to eat cake, and eat cake I did! Big chocolaty chocolate cake...and ice cream. When in Vienna one really must, honest. The first thing that struck me about Vienna is the size of everything. Every building seems hugely over sized and the space between some of them seems vast in the urban setting. The architecture's is generally very grand baroq ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more