Courtyard Vienna Messe

We arrived on the train from Munich for a four day stay in Vienna. We visited all of the usual buildings that you find in any big city. Vienna is a very leafy place, baroque buildings and lots of fountains.<br>A visit to the Opera house (well this is Vienna), a ten minute look at an opera (a bit boring, that) and it was off to the Spanish Riding School. Very enjoyable ...

... but kept gravitating to the University. Somehow, I always feel at home at universities, near and abroad. There is an energy, hopefulness, and openness to innovation that you don&#8217;t always encounter outside the academy. Hmm&#8230; maybe there is something to that!<br><br>Anyway, I am awaiting my overnight flight to Johannesburg and I am very eager to visit the Small Enterprise Foundation in ...

... but not that special I felt. I then headed into the Christmas markets which were always nice and then towards the museums and gallery's. I did not go into any as I am not a lover of art but the buildings them selves were really interesting. Overall I was not that intersted by Vienna. It was a nice place but was not that wowed by it, I was looking forward to getting on to more intersting places.

... chocolate shell. It was good, not great. The last night there was a tad disappointing. My only roommate that I was actually socializing with was such a party pooper. She didn't want to go out two nights in-a-row and would go to bed early. She was a lame American! So I decided to go to the hostel bar and have a beer on my own. I would stay if it was happening or would just go to sleep if it ...

... of butter but its a stick of yeast so i just cut off a chunk and stuck it in hoping it would work! (which it did) i was talking with my dad about going kayaking in a river here and he said that he had never heard of it but we looked into it and we might go on a trip with like a group or he said we might just do a couple day biking trip on the danube because he knows how that works so either way i think ill have a great time :) ok well im doing well and hope you are as well =]

... the real person is nothing like in the movies ... as usual). After that we checked out Stephansdom (the local Cathedral) and then had some supper. We followed that up with a Cappuccino in Café Central (one of Vienna's famous coffee houses) and then headed back to the hostel to do some Laundry (yay ... exciting Friday night doing laundry). Yesterday we started out by going to the Summer Palace. The guidebook refers to it as a "Mini ...

... would look like with real money. Its how Germany would look if they hadn't had 20 years of paying the bills for reunification. The degree of affluence - never ostentatious - is mesmerising, and left me feeling like a slack jawed yokel brought to have an audience with the emperor. My audience was actually with the empress, as that is the minimum standard of attention demanded by Claude on Her birthday, The Most Important Day of The Year. I was ...

... wasn't too interesting as I was still recovering from the last 2 days. But onward I go. Freddy and Nikki are from the London area. They go to school in Sussex. They seem like good people. But they have been following me for some time now. And in Vienna they finally caught up with me. Weeks ago, I was in Amsterdam. Then they were. Then I was in Berlin. Then they were. In ...

... t believe my eyes with the prices . . . and I got half a kilo of Eerdberries [Strawberries] for sixty nine cents and I'd noted at the shop down the road that they were &euro; 2,99 per 500grams [I went back for more later but they were sold out - I wasn't the only one t realise the value there and diabetics can eat as many strawberries as they like] . . . then the walk down the aisles was similarly surprising with prices in most cases way below prices back home ...

... trips, you already saved money. As the metro goes pretty much everywhere (even Schonbrunn Palace, which is a bit out of the city), it's the best option to make the most of your sightseeing time. As far as nightlife goes, we didn't really party, as I was feeling under the weather... Our hostel was clean and a good price as far as the city costs (it was 16 Euro for a 4-6 bed dorm), but Sam and I didn't particularly warm to it as it ...