Hotel Herzoghof Baden

... gevierd met een heerlijke picknick met veel koekjes en fruitjes in het park. Naast ons lag een gestoord wijf onbedaard tegen zichzelf te lachen.. En toen gingen Paola en Anna ook nog uren lang op zoek naar de plee, waardoor ik alleen in het park was met toeristen-Japanners en het Lachende Wijf. 's Avonds aten we heerlijk spaghetti bij mij thuis, begeleid door alle mensen die van de King houden, en dat graag in zang uitdrukken (Mariah moet moet pensioen!!!).

... begonnen. Auf den Geschmack für lange läufe bin ich beim 24 Stundenlauf in Wörschach gekommen. Ich war mit meinem Verein dem CLR Sauwald mit einer Megastaffel am Start wo wir im Jahre 2005 den 3.Platz und 2006 den 1.Platz erreichten. 2007 war ich und Alois im Einzel am Start wo ich 153 km erreichte. Danach folgte der 6 ...

... 3 hours! My new shoes broke my feet in and the blisters are still huge! Not to worry... it was well worth every bandaide! I lifted the following excerpts from Wikipedia and AboutVienna.org.... it explains the layout of the city centre and gives you an idea of most of the ground we covered. "The 'old town', or city centre, is the first district, with Stephansdom and Stephansplatz at the centre of a bullseye. It is ...

We returned from Paris only for me to turn around and leave an hour later. I decided that the best way for me to see some countries in Eastern Europe would be to just go on an all inclusive tour. There is a company that does things for military people and those associated with them, so I booked a four day tour of Vienna, Budapest and Prague. The next few blogs could quite possible contain some of the most outrageous travel stories I ...

... in the movies. It was the home of Maria Teresa, empress of Austria and later home to Franz Josef II and his wife Elisabeth or "Sissi", as she was called. Sisi was known for her beauty and slender waist. She is revered now after her death and remembered as a tragic victim of over exposure and royal duty. In reality she was reclusive and standoffish in every aspect of her life. Perhaps it was that she could never find a toilet!! Sissi was stabbed to death by an Italian terrorist. A ...

... sandwich from the corner shop. Pigeons love these foods. The moment I sit down to feast on my meal, I notice those damn pigeons out of the corner of my eye. "It's important to not let them defeat me," I tell myself repeatedly, but I know one day they will win. They wobble back and forth, under the bench, around the bench; they even have the nerve to stare at me. I have learned the art of eating peacefully while simultaneously flailing my legs ...

... metal roof, with interesting spires and domes. Inside the frescoes were being restored, so it was more like a construction site than a church, but there was a lift to the top of the scaffolding so I was able to see the frescoes on the domed ceiling up close. I then went to the Secession Building, which has a gold fillagree plant-like sculpture on the top that some say resembles a golden cabbage. The building and its cabbage apparently caused outrage when it was ...

... overview of the city, and scoping out some of the stuff we wanted to see the next day. In the morning, we started walking the Old Town in Rick Steves walking tour. We started in the Royal crypt of the Hapburgs which had some pretty sculptures of skulls and bones. After the crypt, we located a small bakery (also recommended by Rick) where I had the best apple strudel of my life! Canadian ...

... but I hadn't seen more than 45 seconds of it! Not all was lost though, I made it to church on a Sunday which will no doubt make my Dad very happy, and at least I can say that I have seen the Vienna Boys' Choir, however briefly. Paul and I met up afterward (he had been too wise to foolishly get up at such an ungodly hour) and we walked through the area of the city hall and parliament buildings before heading up a major pedestrian street toward the ...

... how young a nation the United States really is. In all too short a time, it was time to head back to the plaza to catch the bus so we could get ready for our night on the town.

It was a quick stay at the hotel…in at 5:30, out by 6:30. Then it was on to our “Night in Vienna”. Our first stop was the Grinzing District. Grinzing was once a small town which was incorporated by Vienna in 1892. In this area, all the homes are actually ...