Vienna Austria

View from our hostel window

The first night someone started a fire in the elevator which sent the fire bergade. No need to evacuate though.

Day 1:

Tribute to Mozart who spent most of his short life (36) in Vienna composing music, and is where he is buried.

The crew - minus the camera man.

The Hofburg Musuem is a wing of the imperial palace that displays the treasures of the imperial family's.

Emily and I decided we are registering for this dishware.

Palace coutyard

Stephansdom

Imperial Palace

Christmas Market #1

Christmas Market #2. Drinking the costumary hot wine.

Fried deliciousnous

Feeling the Christmas spirit as we walk to Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving dinner at Grieshenbeisl, the oldest resaurant in Vienna (1447). It still didn't compare to the home cooked meal, but we were in Vienna so we can't really complain.

Leaving Griechenbeisl

Day 2:

Me, Emily, and Kaycee eating a tasty Greek breakfast.

Em and Kayce at Upper Belevedere. An art museum with the works of Renoir, Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt.


"The Kiss"

The garden in front of Upper Belvedere.

Looking from Upper Belvedere towards Lower Belvedere.

Couldn't take another side by side photo so this was option #2.

Christmas Market #3 in Maria Theresia Plaza

Christmas Market #4 in front of Vienna City Hall. Emily clearly couldn't seperate from her hot wine.

Kaycee, Me, and Emily

We actually found a bar that served pitchers and had college football on. The simple pleasures in life are all we need.

The Vienna Ferris Wheel

Going up.

Going down.

3 pm kiss for world peace, and there just happen to be the world right there. Clearly the people on the right are terrorists.....what no kiss??

Flying high in Vienna. Kudos to Emily, the photographer, just one take before the battery died.

Saturday chaos.

Out with Micheal and Elke (friends of Mark and Holly from CO).

Day 3:
Relaxing cafe breakfast

Woke up at 3 am to catch a bus to a train to the airport for 6 am flight.

Sunrise on the plane to Milan.

One month of outstanding travelling!!!!

Back to Lugano for three weeks then Christmas on the island of Majorca Spain, then Madrid and Barcelona.... Am I dreaming???