the Viennese Waltz
From the Hapsburg palace we went straight to the Vienna Arbitration Court. We got an amazing reception with more food than we could ever eat. After a two hour presentation, we were let loose to explore all that is Vienna.
Our first adventure was trying to get 12 people on the right train to the right train station with the right tickets. An hour later, we found the Wombat’s hostel and went through the madness of figuring out what, where and when. Andrew, Jeff, Charlie, Karisa, Lauren and I shared a 6 bunk dorm with one bathroom. Talk about an experience!
That night, we headed to one of the famous Viennese wine caves. It was more a garden than a cave but it was great nonetheless. We drank lots of viennese wine and ate 10 pounds of cheese. It was a great relaxing night that culminated in the underground bar of the Wombat’s hostel drinking whynattes, break dancing, and singing along to Outkast and David Bowie.
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The next day we explored as much of Vienna as we could before the torrential rains came again.
We went to St. Stephens, shopped at the biggest H&M I’ve ever seen, and walked around the museums and the in-town palaces. My favorite part, however, was the city market.
Two enormous blocks of vegetable, meat, fish, cheese, and whatever you can imagine stands. It was an absolute dream! We ate at the best little Asian place and bought a pound of almonds for the road.
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Although we made it to the bus on time, the bus was an hour late…and it just turned out to be the wettest hour of our trip.