Mercure Secession Vienna

... and drinking all night with cheap 'free poor' drinks. Later everyone headed home except Scotty and I. We stayed on until the club closed in the daylight hours. Scott and I then went for a snack and headed home. Bed at 6-7am, up to 8am for a day of heavy sight seeing. Scotty didn't make it out of bed, ha:) DAY 36 - VIENNA Understandably today I was very hungover with a decent headache. Throughout the day, I did the usual and drank water the entire day, totalling 5 ...

... could navigate with my eyes closed...on the bright side - it is not the end of the world if you get lost in Vienna: everybody there speaks decent English and is willing to help...








speaking of languages - normally German language sounds rather harsh to my tender foreign ears, but in Vienna it sounded differently than, let's say, in Frankfurt...maybe it's the Austrian dialect, but it definitely ...

... en daarna picknicken in het park bij Schönbrunn (niet te verwarren met het park van Schönbrunn zelf, want daar mag je niet op het gras zitten..). Günter had thuis geen tijd, dus die heeft ter plekke voor ons een Obstsalat in elkaar gedraaid (met Schlagobers!). Na een twee uur durende lunch-zonnebad-lunch ging ik even dansen (ik heb het eindelijk voor elkaar gekregen om met mn tieten te Shimmyen! ik moest het wel bekopen met twee dagen ...

... Nach 5 Studen Flug und einem 5 Gänge Menü mit extra Weinkarte und Champangner, kommt man dann so entspant in Dubai an:

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... and I went off to explore the Schonbruun castle. The gardens are simply fantastic; and so busy! It almost seemed every "fit" member of the local population was out exercising, either jogging or on their bikes. Most of the statues in the complex were designed by the same person and created in the 1700's.The following day we explored the city itself, starting with the Lippizaner horses. They ...

... had sprinklers lol and beer tents and tiki huts!!!! i wasnt dressed for it so i didnt hang out... but it looked like it would have been fun, haha. i found a place that had amaizing food for cheap, and hung out by myself, it was a lot quieter, no game playing tonight. headed back and ends up the girl in my room spoke english so i chilled with her by the tv and talked for a while then off to bed

... Josef I. It was an interesting tour and fun to hear the stories behind Elisabeth and her habit of traveling and daily life. I went to lunch at a favorite IES student konditori with Jess and two of her classmates. I had a bowl of simple soup with a roll. It was perfect because, after lunch, Jess and I went to the famous Cafe Central for dessert and coffee. I bought the ever-popular sacher torte. It was pretty good but I could have used a little more chocolate. BUT ...

... to church), we wandered the nave for some time. We strolled down the notable streets of Graben (reminiscent of 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica with the metallic painted street performers and shopping) and Kohlmarkt that led us to the Hofburg. The Hofburg is the Imperial Palace once the heart of the Habsburg empire. The City was setting up for a Special Olympics exhibition so it was not as picturesque as we had expected. Next we moved on to ...

... hours to wander the grounds before we had to head back to the train station. I decided to look at the sculpture garden first. The garden has different memorials to the victims of the camp, created b all the countries whose citizens had come to Mauthausen. Some of them were literal and others figurative. The most moving sculpture, for me, was the German memorial. The sculpture is located at the edge of the quarry and is basically a large barbed wire ...

... the church it was dark and gloomy, as to be expected for a church more than 600 years old, but the windows and alter were still original from the first mass held in the cathedral way back in the day. To the immediate east of the church Brain and I visited one of the apartments of the great Mozart. Following our sighting of Mozart's crib we decided it was time to warm up a bit so we went towards the west to a place called Café Central. Café Central had ...