Apartment Pension Sacher Vienna

... back home....).
The next day we vowed to eat some proper Viennese food and happily sampled two local delicacies.
We first ventured to a Schnitzel place called Schnitzelwirst, where the locals go, and our Dad's would have cried at the size of the Wiener Schnitzels we had! It was packed to the rafters with people, so our rude waitress (we had read about these too) sat us at a round table with another couple; older and Austrian. Cue lots of awkward smiles and head ...

... the one that I shared a seat on the bus with was Petra - a psychiatrist from New Castle (her youngest son was in the ensemble). Besides the Vienna Woods we also did a tour of an underground river (it was actually an old mine that had been flooded in 1912 with 2 million tons of water - they opened it for tourists in 1932 and have done boat rides on it ever since - it would have been better if it were a natural river - although it was very neat to see ...

... thicker layer of history for each building and they are put in a much more human perspective as you usual hear comments as "people used to come here for dates in the past", or "we had art lessons inside this building at school" or even "people here are so conservative and hate these buildings". After an exhausting walking tour through the city center we stopped at Cafe Prückel where I could get all the calories and caffeine I would need for the next 2 decades (I got ...

... tourists from all over the world to see a "typical" Austrian entertainment. (Now we know why the Germans consider the Austrians less than suave!! We heard yodeling, alpenhorns and our favorite, the slap dance, danced by tall men in short lederhosen, who would kick and yell. It was hysterical!! If you haven't seen European Vacation you must rent it.. I feel like we're in the middle of one of the ...

... our gate and had a little over an hour to kill before boarding our plane. There were already Salzburg-bound folks from our program waiting, including Christina Cruder, a fellow clarinet player and my seat partner for the 9-hour Munich flight. There were about 13 of us on the same flight and the rest of the people from our study abroad group took different flights, including my boyfriend, Mike Goodson L In the first 3 hours of the flight, time passed painfully ...

... I have been amazed at different cities subway system. Vienna is no exception. It's so easy to get around. We got the train across the river to the UN site, but unfortunately the tours had finished for the day, so got the train back to the city. While I was out on my own I made a booking for dinner in a restaurant high up over looking the city. When we got there we thought we'd go for a few drinks next door, only to ...