Sleepy in Vienna

Yesterday was a crazy morning... I don't know why I do it but I decided to take a 6am flight from Copenhagen to Vienna. So I woke up at 3:45 headed to the airport, and even with the delays, arrived in Vienna at 8:30. While I was hoping to crash right away once I got home, my room was not yet available so I dropped my luggage and headed out. I decided the best thing to do was to go on a bus tour so I could just relax and not worry about where I am and how to get someplace. It was a really great introduction to the city.

At the end of the second tour one-hour tour I got off at the Schönbrunn Palace, the summer palace for the Habsburg family. It was very cool. I very much loved the yellow it's painted (apparently it's called Schönbrunn Yellow). Also very cool was the way the palace was heated. It's large stoves but because they were royalty, e stoves were fed wood (the coal) from inside the walls so there would be very little soot in the rooms and the royals would not be disturbed when it was time to add more fuel. The gardens around the palace are very beautiful.

After the palace I headed back to my hotel for some rest but it was soon time to head out for the opera. I decided to try a traditional sausage from one of the street vendors near my hotel. It wasn't bad but I think it was because the one I picked from the window had cheese.

The opera was good but I have to admit the opera house is not in the ideal locations as surfing quieter points in the opera you could hear the subway going by. I think it was a great start but I really can't wait for the the one at the in Staatsoper tomorrow.

 

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