Vienna, Austria (First Day Back)

 

St. Stephen Cathedral 

It’s so hard to visit a place like Vienna because there is so much to see and do.  On the other hand there are so many people seeing and doing things.  It’s my day to pick!  It’s a gorgeous day, so I decide to take a nice walk.  My go to is the All Trails app.  Well that narrowed it down to approximately 500 potential walks in Vienna.  I stumble onto the Architectural Trail, a street walk about 4 miles long that coincidentally ends only 250 ft from our VRBO.  The trail starts at Stephanplatz.  As we come out of the subway we are face to face with a massive gothic cathedral, St Stephan’s.  

The walk started with incredible architectural sights including the Vienna Opera House but as it got closer to lunch time, we sorta stopped looking up and started looking around for food.  Deb finally got her Käsekreiner sausage with mustard!

We finished the walk at the VRBO, without doing the last 250 ft.  We have packed 10 days of clothes, we’ve been gone for 7,  there is a laundromat in Migennes, France (hopefully) where we will be in 9 days, with 8 days left on the trip.  Long and short of it is, today is laundry day.  So having done a few loads, I feel driven to do that last 250 ft.

Art Museum 

We end up at an Art Museum dedicated to Freidreich Hundertwasser who was a painter and an architect.  We had seen the building he designed on the first day, which was fascinating.  The museum is in the same style.  He wanted to bring the natural world into building design.  For example, the ground is never completely flat, so floors shouldn’t be either.  He was a tad eccentric, but Deb and I were infatuated.  

Tomorrow is Deb’s turn.