Courtyard By Marriott Vienna Schoenbrunn

... Deputy Chief of US Mission to the Int**national Organizations in Vienna, and to Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the Iranian Ambassador to Austria. It was a really amazing seminar, lots of high drama in IR. The last session was a panel “discussion” but it turned into more of a debate and the claws w**e out and th**e w**e fireworks, not so much between Iran and the USA, but between Iran and ev**yone else and Iran and a form** US diplomat ...

... the fabulous public transportation, we headed out there for some more art in a palace experience. The Belvedere used to be a summer residence for some royal family, but has since been turned into an art museum. They have a bunch of collections, but the one we checked out was mainly Austrian Art from the middle ages forward. It was a good activity for a rainy day. We spent our last evening in Vienna with our hosts and their friends, sitting around their kitchen table ...

... een rustigere kroeg in het centrum gevlucht. Mijn 'ik ga vanavond vroeg naar huis'-avond veranderde dus weer in een dagje kleine uurtjes.. De volgende dag weer een tour, maar deze keer door het 1. Bezirk, waar al het mooie van Wenen is. De tour werd weer geleid (mijn groepje dan) door Sophie, de vizepresidentin van ESN. Die is heel schattig, en heeft ons voor alle slechte mensas en dure cafes gewaarschuwd, en een paar mooie geheime dingen van Wenen verteld. Het valt me op dat alle ...

... for the Naschmarkt. The Naschmarkt is an open-air market that stretches along the path of the Wien River. At this point the river is underground, so the market sits above the river. It is full of stands selling different kinds of fresh fruits, vegtables, nuts, meat, fish and poultry. Additionally you can get different kinds of sweets, cheese, souvenirs, etc. There are also a lot of cafes and restaurants. Going there after my huge meal at Figlmüller was actually a good idea ...

... dde selvsagt siste buss. Vi gikk til teltet og hentet litt vikingfjord. Det var noen hollendere som hadde slått op telt ved siden av oss, som satte seg med oss. Å plutselig kom de tre jentene som jeg traff tidligere på dagen. jeg fallt for den ene av dem, Gwen. Hun var 17 år, nydelig og likte meg tydelighvis. Men kunne hun Engelsk????? NEI!!!!! Fockings tragisk spør du meg. Vi satt og lo og koste oss, hun hadde en rar, men søt latter. Neste dag kom de med adressene sine og ...

... years, but in 71 different houses. Saw memorials to Freud, Goethe and Dr Seuss. Big opera houses and obligatory huge cathedral that we couldn't get into as it was Sunday, and hundreds of Viennese musicians in traditional dress were coming out, and freezing their little butts off after a service. Went back to the restaurant we visited on our first night to have another lovely Wiener Schnitzel, and complete the cycle.

I don't know what version of Free you might subscribe to, but here in Vienna if a parking garage claims to be free-don't believe it. And if your apartment owner says free parking is across the street-definitely don't believe it. I learned the hard way that a free parking garage still costs around $50 a day! Yep, you saw right, $50 a day, 3 days cost me 105 euro or about $153! So ...

... the top of a school desk, and the leg shaving took some work. We went to the inner ring of Vienna and walked around St. Stephen's Square. We toured the church and the catacombs underneath which house bones of plague victims and the internal organs of the Hapsburgs. We walked around for an hour trying to find the only synagogue to survive the Kristalnacht in Vienna, only to see it looked just like an apartment building and you couldn't even go in ...

... haha We arrived in Vienna in the early afternoon to which then Tunde left us with a local guide. We first did a bus tour passing the state opera, parliament, town hall, churches, museums and a very old ferris wheel. We stopped at Hero's Square to see the Hofburg Imperial Palace. (from the outside of course) Starting in 1279, it was the home of many kings and emperors and is now the official seat of the President of Austria. Our female guide made ...