Vienna, Austria
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This weekend I headed to Vienna, or Wien as it's written in German. I was joined by two colleagues from Shanghai, Man-Him and Lau. We couldn't get a decently priced friday afternoon flight so we instead flew out early Saturday morning at some ungodly hour. We went straight to another colleagues house, Sigfried who is also working in Stuttgart but flew home on Friday. He also thought our flight time was ungodly and wasn't exactly awake so much when we knocked on his door around 8am. We later learnt he hadn't got to bed until 5am(ish).
Our first stop was brekky just near Sigi's then off via U-Bahn to Schonbrunn (needs those funny dots over the 'o') Castle. We did a tour of the inside and then walked around the gardens. Very impressive. Next stop was to Belvedere, another castle like structure that also hosted a museum with art by Spiele. Man-Him and Lau wanted to check that out more so they went in while Sigi and I just chilled out in the garden and soaked up the glorius sunny day we were having. We both even got lightly sunburnt which may not seem that big of a deal but given we've just come out of a long cold winter, it was a stark change.
We then went into the main city centre and checked out St Stephen's church and then stopped for ice cream at what seemed to be a very famous ice cream shop judging but the large crowd. Another train saw us back at Sigi's where we grabbed our stuff, left for hotel and got ready for night. We then re-grouped and headed to a wine tavern and drank some wine and got a good feed. We then hit one of Sigi's current favourite spots, the red room and partied the night away.
Sunday was a little slower due to saturday's partying and we headed to the inner circle of Vienna and explored some of the buildings, museums, parks, city hall, opera house and theatres in the area. Given we had a Sunday afternoon flight and that it quickly went from a bright sunny day to raining, we mainly browsed past/through most of these places without really stopping into any to further explore.
Uneventful flight back. Next flight in #30 since I left Perth on February 3rd!
Catchya's
Dave
This weekend I headed to Vienna, or Wien as it's written in German. I was joined by two colleagues from Shanghai, Man-Him and Lau. We couldn't get a decently priced friday afternoon flight so we instead flew out early Saturday morning at some ungodly hour. We went straight to another colleagues house, Sigfried who is also working in Stuttgart but flew home on Friday. He also thought our flight time was ungodly and wasn't exactly awake so much when we knocked on his door around 8am. We later learnt he hadn't got to bed until 5am(ish).
Our first stop was brekky just near Sigi's then off via U-Bahn to Schonbrunn (needs those funny dots over the 'o') Castle. We did a tour of the inside and then walked around the gardens. Very impressive. Next stop was to Belvedere, another castle like structure that also hosted a museum with art by Spiele. Man-Him and Lau wanted to check that out more so they went in while Sigi and I just chilled out in the garden and soaked up the glorius sunny day we were having. We both even got lightly sunburnt which may not seem that big of a deal but given we've just come out of a long cold winter, it was a stark change.
We then went into the main city centre and checked out St Stephen's church and then stopped for ice cream at what seemed to be a very famous ice cream shop judging but the large crowd. Another train saw us back at Sigi's where we grabbed our stuff, left for hotel and got ready for night. We then re-grouped and headed to a wine tavern and drank some wine and got a good feed. We then hit one of Sigi's current favourite spots, the red room and partied the night away.
Sunday was a little slower due to saturday's partying and we headed to the inner circle of Vienna and explored some of the buildings, museums, parks, city hall, opera house and theatres in the area. Given we had a Sunday afternoon flight and that it quickly went from a bright sunny day to raining, we mainly browsed past/through most of these places without really stopping into any to further explore.
Uneventful flight back. Next flight in #30 since I left Perth on February 3rd!
Catchya's
Dave
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