I'm baaack!
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wiseheartThanks to everyone for the good wishes concering our country. It was a very nice trip, with great weather and lots of fun. I saw beautiful sights and ate delicious food and spend a month's salary on DVDs - Stargate SG-1 seasons 1-7, yippeee!!! - and generally had a great time.
Beware the picspam under the cut!
March 15
We had a nice, comfortable 3-hours-train-ride from Budapest to Vienna and arrived shortly after 9 o'clock. We went direclty to our hotel, which is actually what our British friends would call a B&B - a small family business with only 18 tiny rooms, on the third floor of a big old house.
The main entrance:
If you take a look at the court, you can see that it's really an old house, where - aside from the B&B - ordinary families live:
The rooms all look like this: they have a small shower cublicle, and are perfectly right for people like us:
We dropped our bags and went to the baker's two corners down the street, where you can have breakfast - a huge one for a moderate price, so that you won't have to be worried about food for the following five hours or so. *g*
The shops generally look the same:
Afterwards, we did a little window shopping on the street where our B&B is, which took about all the morning. Then we rode the subway to the department store Gerngross:
In front of which we were supposed to meet Mum's Austrian colleague Karl. With him, we went to the Palace of Justice, where you can eat in the cafeteria on the terrace of the 5th floor.
Palace of Justice:
We've taken a look at the wonderful foyer of the Palace:
Nice, isn't it?
Then we went up to the terrace, where the cafeteria (or canteen, as it's also called) is situated, and ate something that called itself a salad and came in a dish of the size of a football stadion. We couldn't even eat all of it, but it was delicious nonetheless. And we drank Almdudler. You all should try Almdudler - it's some kind of herbal lemonade, and generally the drink of the gods.
Terrace view:
Terrace view #2:
Terrace view #3:
Mum & me on the samesome terrace:
We also saw there the Austrian Minister of Justice, who happens to be a nice lady about my age. Since all vistiors are searched by entering the Palace, she could walk around with her guests without herds of bodyguards surrounding her.
After that, Karl took us to an exposition about medieval cloisters in Middle-Europe - unfortunately, there were only photos and one makett, but it was beautiful all the same. Then we went to a typical Vienna café in the Mariahilfer street called Servus, which, in Austrian dialect, means approximately "Hi" or "Hello!"
Café Servus - bar:
Mum & Karl in the Café Servus:
After that, Karl had to go, and Mum and I went to buy some DVDs for me, admire the Eastern decoration of the shop windows, and we bought more chocolate bunnies than we'd actually intended. Arund 17:30, we brought all our acquisitions to the R&R and left again, to have dinner. We knew a very nice restaurant near our R&R, in the typical Vienna "Gasthaus"-Look, and we had a grand time there before returning home and falling in bed, completely drained. *g*
Restaurant "Weißgerber Stube im Sünnhof"
Allrighty, that was Day One, stay tuned for more. ;))
Beware the picspam under the cut!
March 15
We had a nice, comfortable 3-hours-train-ride from Budapest to Vienna and arrived shortly after 9 o'clock. We went direclty to our hotel, which is actually what our British friends would call a B&B - a small family business with only 18 tiny rooms, on the third floor of a big old house.
The main entrance:
If you take a look at the court, you can see that it's really an old house, where - aside from the B&B - ordinary families live:
The rooms all look like this: they have a small shower cublicle, and are perfectly right for people like us:
We dropped our bags and went to the baker's two corners down the street, where you can have breakfast - a huge one for a moderate price, so that you won't have to be worried about food for the following five hours or so. *g*
The shops generally look the same:
Afterwards, we did a little window shopping on the street where our B&B is, which took about all the morning. Then we rode the subway to the department store Gerngross:
In front of which we were supposed to meet Mum's Austrian colleague Karl. With him, we went to the Palace of Justice, where you can eat in the cafeteria on the terrace of the 5th floor.
Palace of Justice:
We've taken a look at the wonderful foyer of the Palace:
Nice, isn't it?
Then we went up to the terrace, where the cafeteria (or canteen, as it's also called) is situated, and ate something that called itself a salad and came in a dish of the size of a football stadion. We couldn't even eat all of it, but it was delicious nonetheless. And we drank Almdudler. You all should try Almdudler - it's some kind of herbal lemonade, and generally the drink of the gods.
Terrace view:
Terrace view #2:
Terrace view #3:
Mum & me on the samesome terrace:
We also saw there the Austrian Minister of Justice, who happens to be a nice lady about my age. Since all vistiors are searched by entering the Palace, she could walk around with her guests without herds of bodyguards surrounding her.
After that, Karl took us to an exposition about medieval cloisters in Middle-Europe - unfortunately, there were only photos and one makett, but it was beautiful all the same. Then we went to a typical Vienna café in the Mariahilfer street called Servus, which, in Austrian dialect, means approximately "Hi" or "Hello!"
Café Servus - bar:
Mum & Karl in the Café Servus:
After that, Karl had to go, and Mum and I went to buy some DVDs for me, admire the Eastern decoration of the shop windows, and we bought more chocolate bunnies than we'd actually intended. Arund 17:30, we brought all our acquisitions to the R&R and left again, to have dinner. We knew a very nice restaurant near our R&R, in the typical Vienna "Gasthaus"-Look, and we had a grand time there before returning home and falling in bed, completely drained. *g*
Restaurant "Weißgerber Stube im Sünnhof"
Allrighty, that was Day One, stay tuned for more. ;))
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Date: 2007-03-18 01:59 pm (UTC)This is the first time I managed to upload them to my PC all on my own, so I'm ridiculously proud of myself. I know elsewhere six-year-olds do this in their sleep, but I'm a technically challenged, elderly person and happy to have succeeded.
Part 2 comes later on. ;))
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Date: 2007-03-20 07:42 am (UTC)Sounds like you are having a wonderful time, keep up the good times.
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