Vienna, Austria

We arrived in Vienna at what is normally an early time in the afternoon, 3:00 p.m., but here it is actually almost time for the sun to go down. We spent the evening wandering through the shopping district streets because on Sunday night in Vienna, nothing is open except for cafes and kebab shops. We ended up eating dinner at a nice little restaurant with some friends of our traveling partner Aaron. We tried some amazing banana soup with little shrimps in it and some Indian food. We went to bed early on Sunday night so that we could get up early on Monday and start seeing the city when the sun came up since we only had til 4 in the afternoon to get some picture taking and sight seeing in. We walked through the first district of the city starting at a church called Stephansplatz. The city is divided into many districts and the first district is where a lot of the great architecture is. The church there is really beautiful but it looks like every other church we've seen before. We found the opera house and some other really nice places before meeting some friends at the Hundertwasserhaus for a look around the semi surrealist house that is reminiscent of the houses of Gaudí in Barcelona. The patio and front of the house were really nice and inside was a lot of artwork and an exhibition of Annie Lebowitz, one of Iz's favorite photographers. After that, we went to a local market and sampled a lot of the local food and bought a few different dried fruits. The local markets like these are really wonderful and full of great, fresh food that tastes so much better than a lot of the stuff in the supermarkets. We spent the last 2 hours of light wandering through the rest of the first district in order to see some of the great architecture before the winter solstice and her short schedule darkened the sky around 4 in the afternoon. We ended the day by going to see the famous artwork of Gustav Klimpt and his work The Kiss that is housed at the Belvedere Museum here. Overall, the day was great but very tiring due to all the walking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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