Gina & I had quite the epic travel adventure to get there. We rode my bike, yes one bike, to the Delft train station at 5am, caught a train to Rotterdam, bussed to the Rotterdam The Hague Airport, flew to Vienna Airport, trained to Vienna, took the underground a few stops, and walked a bit to our hostel. BAM! We are now savvy travelers.
To reward ourselves we had the classic wienerschnitzel for dinner that day. I didn't know that it was breaded, fried veal. For some reason I thought it was going to be a hot dog (pulling the American card again).
Gina, that's a big wienerschnitzel!
It comes with a side of potatoes.
I had some kind of ham and dumplings and sauerkraut.
We managed to find standing room only tickets to an opera. You wait in line for 30 minutes and get tickets for only 3 euros, bargain! Here's the famous opera house.
It was so rainy and cold the first day!
Inside the opera house, how romantic
Beautiful ceilings inside
Feeling under dressed
And touristy
We saw this opera!
There were little screens in front of each seat where you could pick your language
to read the script so you can actually know what's going on. It was quite funny, despite
what I though an opera would be.
Beautiful at night
I tried to get the cars blurring by
Vienna's fast food, frankfurters/wieners/hotdogs!
:)
The main shopping street, H&M! Burger King!
If Gina's feet look big, don't worry. Those are my boots she's rocking.
Who's the stylish sister now?! Actually, it was pretty funny this week because we kept switching
shoes with each other between my nice boots (see above) and my hiking books (see any awkward posed picture in that album). You have to choose between fashion and comfort, it's a fact!
Prime example of awkward hiking boot picture. This one isn't even that bad. I'm not going to post the awful ones on the blog, but dig around that photo album and have a chuckle.
On a more important note, that's St. Stephan's Cathedral, famous for it's patterned "camouflaged" roof.
St. Stephan's Cathedral
The awesome roof of St. Stephan's Cathedral. Unfortunately, I didn't actually take this photo.
Gina & I met up with some of my exchange friends to go to north of the city to a vineyard. Luckily, Jo is from Vienna, so he knew where to take us. The restaurant really authentic Austrian food, and we were definitely the only tourists there.
Linda, Johanna looking angry, Gina
Quaint vineyard entrance
The wine was pretty interesting. You order a "liter liter" which is a liter of wine and a liter of spritzer, like club soda which you pump into your glass. So it looks like this...
The spritzer!
Jo is in awe of his friend pouring the wine :)
Ordering food at the counter
Spot the apfelstrudel
Found it. And it DOES deserve a big picture.
Proost!
Proost again!
Sorry it's posed, but you get the idea!
My Swedish, Finnish, and Canadian goofball friends
The reason why nobody messes with us on trains.
Johanna, don't hate me for posting this.
So much bus stop love!
Linda and Gina catching the underground. Vienna has such a great
public transportation system.
Lisa & Anders, I think Lisa got the short of the stick, tehe
Fast food time!
Yum
The next day we did a walking tour with our hostel and here's some sights:
At the market
On a free sample mission
We ate here the first night
The art university that Hitler didn't get accepted into.
Statue honoring those who died in the concentration camps.
He likes me :)
I would feel that way too if I had that outfit!
The women
The men
They're on top of a library
The pretty floor is the one with the balcony because that's where people actually live. The ground floor isn't as important to make pretty. Okay, that's almost all the architecture tid bits I know!
In front of the palace
St. Peter's Church
Baroque architecture!
Statue about conquering the plague, one of my favorites. Australia is not on the map on the bottom left by the angle boy. I think our guide said It wasn't discovered yet.
Bottom half of the statue. The angel boy is killing the plague.
I get my fashionable boots back!
Pretty girl
Lovely darling
Told you she dances!
I didn't alter any color on this picture. The sky was so blue at dusk.
Now for my favorite part of the trip, ice skating!
Imitating the opera
Backwards!
SO delicious, it's dangerous
Lobby of our hostel
Well, I'm totally exhausted with putting this together, so that's what you get! I get to pick up my wonderful boyfriend and five other pretty awesome people from Schiphol in the morning. I've been waiting 46 days for this :)
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