We didn’t expect much from Vienna as we hadn’t done much research into the city, but we were quite surprised by the Austrian capital.
Vienna is certainly a town with some very ornate and beautiful architecture. Indeed, some of the buildings were extremely grand and impressive.
After arriving by train from Krakow, which took a wee while, we caught the very efficient tram and found our apartment. We then needed to do some laundry….we had waited for quite some time in fact previously, before doing our laundry. Fortunately there was a laundry very close by, so off we trotted to get ripped off at a laundrette….nothing particularly surprising about the laundry except for one of the customers who sported a brilliant red clown’s nose, so that kept most folk amused for a short time.
Anyways, after we had finished our laundry, we trundled downtown to get our bearings and as mentioned, some of the buildings in Vienna are simply superb. The parliament buildings were phenomenal but then, just a short distance up the road, was an absolutely brilliant building…think it was a town hall or similar….in the forecourt was a food market and a circus.
Naturally, this was a great place to sit, relax, have a bite to eat and a beer. Opposite was the Vienna Opera House, also a grand and stately building, as shown just above.
The following day we visited the Hapsburg Royal Palace and viewed dinner set after dinner set, cutlery set after cutlery set. Actually, was a tad too much in truth, far too many dinner sets…what did these people do with them all? Nuts. Samantha visited the Gustav Klimt Art Gallery while I took a tram around the city and had a bit of a look around.
Vienna is a very clean city, with the aforementioned classy architecture and an easy layout to get around.
Overall, a very nice place indeed.
