Austria- No Kangaroos here

Vienna


As we caught such an early flight from Munster-Osnabrook we arrived in Vienna nice and early at 8 in the morning.
We stayed at a hostel right near Westbahnhof, which was very convenient, as we could never remember the name of the hostel, just how to get there from the train station.
As we were spending a while in Vienna we got “Vienna cards” which were really good value as we got discounts to a lot of attractions.
We did lots of walking around the main city district. The Dom there is a huge gothic type with mosaics on the roof, that don’t seem to match the style of the rest of the building.



We went to the royal crypt, which was pretty cool. We also went to a clock museum, which had some really nice clocks, and we saw some Roman ruins that were in the middle to town. While we were out walking it started to pour down with rain so we hastily took shelter in a doorway, which turned out to have some really cool carving on it that we would not have seen if it hadn’t rained so hard. We ended up waiting about ½ an hour for the rain to let up enough for us to dash the 50 meters to the nearest underground.


On the Sunday we saw Schloss Schoobrum, where the Hapsburgs lived until 1918. Te grounds are absolutely huge and there is a really nice Gloria at the top of the hill, from which you can see for miles.
There was also a few hedge mazes which were pretty cool. Unfortunately it started to rain while we were in there and we had to find some shelter. We saw a few squirrels in the gardens, which was pretty cool.











On Monday we went to the house of music, which had a very hands on display of music and sound which was fairly good.
In the evening we went to a chamber concert which had some really good music, mainly classics like the ‘Blue Danube” and stuff.

On Tuesday we went to a modern art gallery. It turns out that Matt really like photorealism as a style of art. There were some really nice pieces there and some that were a bit bizarre.

We also took the tram to see some work by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who was an Austrian Artist/ architect. The buildings are pretty cool and there are still people living in them.