Monday, August 22, 2011

Summary of Vienna

The downtown area isn't big, but it was a little confusing and so we had a hard time navigating at first; a large part of this problem was that we didn't find a map, so we were using the one in my tourist book. Once we got our bearings though, it was a nice enough town. My day was sparsely punctuated with delicious cold treats, from an Eiskaffe (ice cream and coffee, basically, though mine was chocolate and Christians was coffee), to some gelato later in the day, a blended mocha drink here at this McDonalds as we head back to the train station, slowly. Vienna has some museums, but we were too tired for them; we did enjoy its parks, though, which have lots of trees and grass and a ton of benches lining the paths. It was just too hot and humid to be walking around, so it really wore us out. It was fun though, and there are some cool things here, the quintessential leisurely cafe, where etiquette requires that you linger and have deep thoughts after your drink is done; being in a hurry is prohibited. Anyway, we are in no hurry. Our train's leaving in a little less than two hours, so we'll get over to the train station at some point. Anyway, that's all I got for now.

2 comments:

  1. Whereas in Amsterdam it is 63 now with highs in the low 70s the next couple days and rain. I didn't even know it got hot in Vienna!

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  2. Talking to a Chicagoan couple here in Zurich, they say Vienna had record highs the last couple days!

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