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Up this morning to Vienna style classical music and breakfast. Finally a cup of coffee and another brown egg!! ;-)
After an enjoyable breakfast we started out on foot patrol of Vienna. The cities just keep getting better and better, but I'm not sure any can top this. It is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen, and while I certainly haven't seen them all it's hard to imagine one prettier, cleaner, or nicer than Vienna.
The first attraction is only a couple of blocks from the hotel, the Volkstheater. From there past the museum, churches, National buildings, and of
course statues everywhere. Even though a lot of these are old, and as you can see from the church downtown, blackened or darkened by age and wear, the city is cleaning and restoring them. Some of the buildings such as the museum show the before and after effects of the cleaning process taking place to restore them to their original beauty.
We walked through the city all the way to the Danube...sure looked "blue" to me!! We then strolled down the river a bit stopping at an internet cafe for a brief "fix" and to check in. It was there I'd received email from Karen with pictures of Lil Girl...Damn she looked good, but I think I could see in her eyes that she still misses me!
Once our hour was up there we continued walking past the parks and all the upscale shops...this city is full of them. It was cool all morning...still feel for Texas when I check the temperatures daily and it's still in the 100's there, must have been in the 50's here all morning. It started to rain lightly about noon so we decided to head back to the room to get out of the rain and have a snack and come back out later when all the buildings were lit for picture taking ops.
We started out again around 6 and headed to Cafe Milano...just a couple of bocks from the hotel to have dinner. It was still raining and we couldn't find an umbrella anywhere...not a lot open on the weekends here. We sat in the restaurant till the rain reduced to a sprinkle and took off. We walked the streets of downtown looking at people and shops waiting for it to get dark...finally
just as it was about to the sun peeked out from beneath the clouds just to light the very highest objects in the city, which made for a couple of picture opportunities. We marveled at the old church more, walking completely around it and peeking in the windows where possible. By now most of the buildings were being lit externally and were really majestic.
We took our time walking back to the hotel making sure we had photographically recorded our sights. Made it back to the hotel around 11pm and reviewed all the pics on the laptop.
Now was the time to review the next days schedule to verify departure times and solidify plans for leaving Vienna and heading for the canals of Venice. As soon as I am connected again I'll post this along with any pictures we've been able to get loaded and let you know about the last morning in Vienna and the trip to Venice.
After an enjoyable breakfast we started out on foot patrol of Vienna. The cities just keep getting better and better, but I'm not sure any can top this. It is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen, and while I certainly haven't seen them all it's hard to imagine one prettier, cleaner, or nicer than Vienna.
The first attraction is only a couple of blocks from the hotel, the Volkstheater. From there past the museum, churches, National buildings, and of
course statues everywhere. Even though a lot of these are old, and as you can see from the church downtown, blackened or darkened by age and wear, the city is cleaning and restoring them. Some of the buildings such as the museum show the before and after effects of the cleaning process taking place to restore them to their original beauty.We walked through the city all the way to the Danube...sure looked "blue" to me!! We then strolled down the river a bit stopping at an internet cafe for a brief "fix" and to check in. It was there I'd received email from Karen with pictures of Lil Girl...Damn she looked good, but I think I could see in her eyes that she still misses me!
Once our hour was up there we continued walking past the parks and all the upscale shops...this city is full of them. It was cool all morning...still feel for Texas when I check the temperatures daily and it's still in the 100's there, must have been in the 50's here all morning. It started to rain lightly about noon so we decided to head back to the room to get out of the rain and have a snack and come back out later when all the buildings were lit for picture taking ops.
We started out again around 6 and headed to Cafe Milano...just a couple of bocks from the hotel to have dinner. It was still raining and we couldn't find an umbrella anywhere...not a lot open on the weekends here. We sat in the restaurant till the rain reduced to a sprinkle and took off. We walked the streets of downtown looking at people and shops waiting for it to get dark...finally
just as it was about to the sun peeked out from beneath the clouds just to light the very highest objects in the city, which made for a couple of picture opportunities. We marveled at the old church more, walking completely around it and peeking in the windows where possible. By now most of the buildings were being lit externally and were really majestic.
We took our time walking back to the hotel making sure we had photographically recorded our sights. Made it back to the hotel around 11pm and reviewed all the pics on the laptop.Now was the time to review the next days schedule to verify departure times and solidify plans for leaving Vienna and heading for the canals of Venice. As soon as I am connected again I'll post this along with any pictures we've been able to get loaded and let you know about the last morning in Vienna and the trip to Venice.
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