Vienna, Austria

I'm back! Vacation is officially over :(  But at least there are the pictures.

I said this about Prague, and now I'll say it about Vienna: it wasn't on my "must see" list (we only went for a friend's wedding) but it was amazing. Could have done without the heatwave and definitely without the George Bush visit that shut down half the city. Everything else was fantastic.

RE: Bush, check out this dude and his balloon...

I should state that we kicked it all off in a great way by watching the US/Italy game at the airport bar - which of course we tied. It was the fullest, rowdiest airport bar I've ever been a part of! Here we are..

We spent the first half of the trip in the heart of the old city at a boutique hotel called the Hollmann-Beletage. What a joy that place is. And it's ideal if other people you know are staying there too because they only have one floor and all the rooms are around the central living space and dining room. The chalkboards on the outside of the rooms make for easy notes to each other too. The staff is incredibly friendly and helpful. Just don't lose a key like we did - 50 euros to replace! ouch.

We spent Monday tooling around the city - our hopes of expanding our cultural horizons were quickly dampened as we discovered all museums are closed on Mondays. So we enjoyed the very old, very important buildings from the outside and read descriptions about the insides. Lunch at the nachtmart was delicious. We cooled off within the Albertina, the only open gallery we could find.

Enjoy some pics of very old, very important things.

 

 

 

More to come soon -