Pension Sacher Vienna

... then decided to walk back to the apartment to do some blogging. However, on the way Penny got distracted by the famous Cafe Sacher and suggested we go in. We had very nice coffees and yummy Sachertorte in the very elegant cafe, served by very elegant ...

... day: to walk around the ring road and stop at anything that caught our eye. Wandering back to the apartment we bought Vienna Cards (transport and discount card)s, more travel laundry detergent, and Penny got a new chapstick, then we were off. Walking ...

... Czech coins and spent them on sausages in rolls with mustard, which were entirely unnecessary. Our first impressions of Vienna really weren't that great. The Suedbahnhof railway station was pretty much deserted and didn't have a very nice feel, the ...

... a beer for Darren and Penny's second wine for the trip (first was last night). It was quite nice but, like many places in Vienna (and I guess elsewhere in Austria), quite smoky. Not so bad when you're there, but a bit revolting when you smell like smoke ...

... . Our ladies use the bathroom, emerging suitably impressed by the elegance. There are two other unusual public toilets I use in Vienna. At the Opera underground station there is a piano beside the urinals. I relieve myself swathed in arias from Aida. The ...

... restaurant that is sort of like a cave. It was alright - not as pricey as I thought it might be. So I didn't really like Vienna much. The weather wasn't great so maybe that didn't help, the concert was fun but I could leave the rest. When we caught ...

... other cities. In took a few minutes, part of the time walking in the wrong direction, before we found our hotel, the Pension Nossek.  We were buzzed into the lobby of the building where we found a tiny elevator surrounded by a spiral staircase that ...

... our Christmas holiday with the family, we spent a couple days in the birthplace of Mozart, quite literally as he once lived in the pension where we stayed! Partly due to the bitter cold (-14 deg.C at one point), and also owing to the quality of the ...