Forgive the lack of a post last night. Could have blogged-but with the S.O. asleep from the days exertions and the internet in the lobby acting cranky anyway-decided to blow it off to drink a few beers at the International Bar, The Flying Pig, located just around the corner from our hotel. Turned out to be an interesting excursion-seems it is run by an young Englishman who speaks fluent German.
And speaking of fluent German, someone has to explain to me, why I took six years in High School and College to learn the language-only to have every German speaker I try to use it with turn up their nose at me as soon as I start with , ” Wir mochte…………” What is up with that?
Anyway.
We went to Schonbrun yesterday. It is one of two palaces the Hapsburgs used during the time they ruled a united central Europe, before i was fractured into the discombobulated mess it is today. It is an elegant palace, painted in the same yellow as Versailles, but unlike Verailles, in my opinon is not as elegant. Its more , oh I don’t know, German. But from the outside-it’s still pretty good to see:
Hanging with the Hapsburgs!
There was a lot more to see-if you are interested, read on!
Another view of the back of the palace:
And like Versailles, it has to have a large garden-only this one comes with a monument on the hill:
It even had a very unique clock:
Notice the peg under the Roman numerals?
It came with its own Zoo too!
Can you tell the weather was doggy?
After completing the tour-which took over 2 hours-the audio tour was very detailed-we high tailed it via the subway to St. Stephans Platz:
Whereupon it got dark and snowy:
Now mind you, it was only 4:45 in the afternoon!
We also checked out one of the 13 apartments that Mozart lived in while in Vienna. This is not the one used in Amadeus:
After which it was time to head to eat dinner-a whole another story in itself. But my battery is once again running low-damn these lobby interent accesses! More tomorrow.