One of the first things we did upon arriving in Vienna was head to Naschmarkt, yes, another public market, to find some food. While I apparently did not photograph the actual market I did take this where we ate:
Which roughly, very roughly, translates to, “Why are we arguing? You are sausage, I am sausage… we’re both angry men (?) let’s eat well anyway!” (My German is marginal and my Austrian is even worse! Google Translate helped me make an educated guess.)
After lunch, satiated with wurst, we embarked on a short walking tour where we saw the ‘cabbage’, the opera house, and the Albertina museum. I did go into the museum and will touch on that in a bit.
During our tour a few things caught my attention including this:
…this banana…
…horses in pink hats…
…and though I do know what the verb ‘fahren’ means I couldn’t resist taking a photo of this:
Where’s Howard Stern when you need him?
(Story note: I started this several days ago, and have no idea where I was going with it, so I’ll pretend we went from here to….)
Schönbrunn was our next stop the grounds of which were beautiful and I played with some filters on my camera…
…ran to see this…(wasn’t sure I could make the walk to it in time and get back on the bus)…
…got there and saw this…
…snapped a few photos using filters again…
…then headed back to the bus. Another quick note of interest before I move one is that we did get a tour of the palace and on that tour we received ear pieces to better hear our guide who was using a microphone. Awesome! Right? Well, yes, except when the Chinese tour guide and her group kept getting too close and her audio would interfere with ours. Our guide tried to rectify the situation but the Chinese guide either didn’t understand, or just didn’t care. We let them pass.
While in Vienna we ate good food…
…saw some sweet roman ruins…
…and some of us, for some crazy reason, decided to climb the 400 some-odd steps to the top of St. Stephen’s Cathedral…
…ok, maybe it was for the view.
At some point during our visit a few of us went to the Albertina Museum and saw some great pieces…
…and afterward I took this from the observation deck(?)…
…and wondered, “What’s with the giant green rabbit?” Never did find out; that’s ok, after-all isn’t it better just to wonder sometimes?
Adventuring in Europe 