Hotel Savoy - Austria Trend Vienna

... fridge (although the fridge and freez** are a little small) &#8211; and more importantly my bedroom is HUGE and I don&#8217;t have a bunk bed this time.<br><br>Webst** is about a 10 minute walk from our apartments and I had my first class on Monday evening (yeah, as in the day I got back from Budapest). I will be taking Mod**n Middle East and Research Methods this t**m, as well as anoth** professional seminar. The MME class I think will be fun ...

... end our evening.<br><br>Oops, when we get back to the car we have a camper squeezed in beside us. There are parents, grandparents, a young girls and an unhappy 2 or 3 year old boy. They are just getting ready to have diner, what! Well it is just about 10:30 p.m. We did our teeth and got in bed listening to the Italian family enjoy their meal and then a crying boy who didn&#8217;t want to go to bed for what seemed to be the longest time.<br><br>

... 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 ...

... have had another hour at this one because it was so neat. After this it was back home. We traveled pretty much the rest of the day to finally end up back in Differdange. Vienna was a great trip. My favorite moments include the Spanish Lippezan horses, the cemetary, the dinner at the winery, and lunch on Friday. I also really liked the Mozart house tour. Hope you enjoyed reading this quick run-through of my Vienna trip! :-) Pictures will be added eventually, so check back.

... stress of being away from everything would get to me. This first week, I had this feeling that I had been stripped of so much of what makes up the person I am: my family, my friends, my culture, my language, my church. All that seemed to be left was the "raw" version of myself..me without all of the other parts that my life is typically composed of. It was hard to see this. I started feeling like I was nothing without all of those things. I seemed to be sitting around thinking ...

... performed The Creation by Haydn. Of course it was in German, as originally written. Before the concert started I thought we might have a bit of a problem. Whoever had set up the chairs apparently didn't have legs and didn't think anyone else did either. One very tall man had shoved his seat back, so the row behind him had zero room. We quickly solved the problem by moving the last four rows back and spreading them out. Then everyone settled in to enjoy the concert. It was ...

... going on the same tour, there must have been at least 200 people there. They separated us into groups based on language and then they divided the English speaking group into four other groups. Craig and I were put in the group with Annabelle as our tour guide. She is Australian and she was the best tour guide I have ever had. We started in Pariser platz which is where the famous Brandenburg gate is. Annabelle told us a story about the statue on top of the ...

After a twelve hour train travel, in which the other guy in the cabin, from Jordan, told me his story, and how he had already once been deported from Germany, I stood down from the "Nachtzug" from Dusseldorf. I stretched my legs, looked at my Itinerary, and started the journey. Ok, ok, I left my bags in a locker at the station (Wien Wesbahnhof if you were wondering), got out, and stopped in the first Cafe I could. I was literaly starving, it was a ...

... serios concerts and it had a quite touristy feeling to it.. On Sunday we visited the Schönbrunn palace. This was nice. We got audio guides and were guided around the palace without having to walk in a croud. The garden outside was very nice and extremely big, and we had a nice and long walk there. Later that day we went to see some of the Hundertwasser houses in Vienna. All three of us loved it, and we went straight to the Kunstahus ...

... because of the rain, it was inside. The orchestra and operetta singers were great even though I couldn't understand a word they were saying. (It was done in German) One male singer was hilarious with his facial expressions and a took a few videos of which I will post. The show was called Strauss- W.A. Mozart Konzerte performed by Weiner hofburgorchester. The show lasted 2 hours and Tunde gave us a CD of it which I am listening to as I write this.