Friday night we go to the Opera with super cheap standing room tickets - tonight's show is 'The Flying Dutchman'. This was an interesting experience - unfortunately we didn't find the English subtitles until it was almost finished!!
Saturday we go to the beautiful Schloss Schönbrunn, where we take a crash course in Viennese history...and have some fun in the maze!
The Vienna Four - Me, Cherry, Yao Yao and Joo Young.Saturday evening we explore the city - gorgeous all lit up at night! After dark we head over the famous Ferris Wheel, with a ride on the roller coaster too. The views are beautiful from the top of the wheel, although by this stage my camera is dead - so I have no good pictures!
Sunday is a beautiful, blue sky-ed day - so we head to the park in the morning, and relax while doing some people watching. After a relaxed Brunch we check out the Austrian art in Belvedere, and although art is not at all my thing, I am pleasantly surprised by what we find inside.
After some more exploring of the old buildings and many statues across Vienna we see some huge tents set up around the Parliament - today is election day in Austria, but we cannot gather any info on what is happening. Talking to some Austrian students on the train that night there was some unease at the high number of votes the far right wing parties had received - as an aside, exactly three weeks later the infamous right wing politician Jörg Haider was killed in a car crash.
So far the weather in Austria had been terrible, but today was definitely an exception. Following the past two days of endless walking we are pretty much exhausted, and spend a fair bit of the afternoon relaxing under the sun :D
Vienna has some very classy statues, along with some more unusually placed ones - like this random elephant.
But on a more serious note....
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