Renaissance Wien Hotel

... in het 1. Bezirk. Uiteraard alle mooie gebouwen langs de Ring laten zien (ik weet nu welke nieuw-gothisch, nieuw-klassisch, nieuw-renaissance, etc is!!!). Kate was net zo verliefd als ik op onze Uni-binnentuin met strandstoelen, en mede door het weer was ...

... venues this was a new building, all bare, unadorned concrete with fabricated metal pews. A dramatic contrast to the ancient baroque and renaissance structures we had been in up to now. Our partner choir was the twenty-odd member Chor Musica Viva Wien. The ...

... , the 16th century artist Veronese, Tintoretto, an enormous mural by Caravaggio, and the large collection of Rubens.   Wien Museum at Karlsplatz - the Vienna Museum.  A fun history of Vienna through the ages, worth a quick visit. ...

... .  Then it is just a very short walk across the side street to the hotel.  I have a free night here at the Renaissance Hotel from a promotion that Marriott was doing back in Jan/Feb.  I had earned a free night voucher and didn’t need ...

... is quite large.  Andy (a friend of our friends Teresa and Vincent) picked us up at the airport and drove us to our hotel.  We checked in then Andy drove us to a good Asian restaurant called "Green Asia" for supper.  They have one of ...

... a day!!!  Today we did a Vienna city tour and it was AMAZING!!!  We started the day with a scrumptious breakfast at the hotel and boarded our bus for a tour with Annalize, our tour guide for the day.  She was absolutely fabulous! One of ...

... Airlines, via Chicago and Brussels, we have landed in Vienna.  Today, we were on our own once we arrived at our beautiful hotel.  We decided that we were going to take a nap and then do a little exploring.  After a much needed siesta and ...

... but a bit disorganised..... The taxi driver knew of the hotel we were heading for – The Imperial Riding School Vienna Renaissance, so off we sped along various dual carriage ways towards the city centre. The drive to the hotel probably only took ...

... if they had bacon and eggs she just looked at me blankly. Not sure if I'm jet lagged or if the Thai sleeping pills are experiencing a renaissance, but hit the wall about 11 am and went back to the hotel for a nanna nap. Slept until four and then went for ...

... off-season. After we saw the David we walked around looking at other paintings, sculptures, and statues (the originals) from the Renaissance era. We didn't stay too long because neither of us are really into art or museums much and basically just wanted ...

... museum.  That museum had ancient Roman and Greek stuff as well as a ton of paintings from various eras around the Renaissance.  I'm not really into all of the old, commissioned religious pieces and portraits, so I wasn't super-impressed, but if ...

... have parked there last night instead of paying for facilities we did not really need!! Telc has a beautiful main square full of renaissance buildings built in 1589 and apparently things really have not changed since then! We tried to get some lunch at a ...