Leaving the Hotel Cristall after breakfast, but before coffee.
Happy Anne on the U-Bahn
Happy Anne on the U-Bahn
Erik and Oskar, you may have left Sweden but we go through it every day!
At last, coffee. Apparently the Austrians say the coffee shop is an extension of your living room - Peter and I expect to have some extensions done when we get home.
Here comes bandy!
High mass at St Stephens. This organ figured loudly in the service.
Quite an impressive cathedral.
Then, on the U-1, change to U-4, to Schoenbrun Palace - the summer Palace of the emperors of the Austrian empire.
Anne looking at a folly.
Every room in the palace had these porcelain heaters. The fires were lit, fed and cleaned from passageways behind the walls.
We took the Grand Tour and now we're buggered.
Up again, and through the gardens.
Let me explain. The statue on the left has two faces (Janus?) and the one on the right is some lady Greek (or Roman). In the foreground is our attempt to reproduce this little sculpture in modern dress.
These roses were scented, and in this tunnel of blooms, the smell was amazing.
They tasted good enough to eat, but they weren't.
Of course, all descriptions of Vienna must end with another bloody coffee shop. Tomorrow we pick up the car and are off to Cesky Krumlov. Know any good Czechs?
I'm very pleased to know that the girls are enforcing the "good coffee" rule. Starbucks ist kaput
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I like the look of the organ. Did you meet any turbulent priests?
The palace looked palatial, i loved the live diorama. I see Cathy was smart enough to stay out of it.
The weather looks like it might be getting you down.
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Dad, you're ahead of me in the footy tipping.
I loved Schoonbrunn. We were there in the winter so very different perspective. It was snowing and the front forecourt was full of Christmas markets. Unfortunately we didn't get to see the roses. The downside of winter travel.
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