As we waltzed into Vienna: "Hey!"
We look up to see Iulia and Cosman coming down the street. Clearly, software engineering students are creative people in the cities they choose to visit and the hostels they choose to stay at...
Vienna was, we think, one of the nicest cities we have visited. We conspicuously omitted certain experiences to give us an excuse to return in a few years' time.
We visited the Schonbrunn Palace, which was not only a beautiful palace in its own right but also sat on the largest, most well-manicured public park that we have seen so far. In fact, it was so nice that we came back at night for a concert (more details in a later post).
Continuing, we saw St. Stephan's Cathedral--probably a very nice church, but overshadowed in our minds by the recent memories of St. Peter's in Rome, the crypt of the Hapsburg royalty (the lid to your sarcophagus is 4,800 pounds?), the beautiful buildings around the Ringstrasse, the State Opera House and of course, a blue Danube.
Everywhere we went, we were amazed at how lucky the Viennese are. Danube Island is gorgeous to sit on with your feet dangling off the pier into the river and has amazing playgrounds for kids. There are nearby mountains easily accessible by public transit (more on that later, too) and plenty of cultural experiences.
Plenty of non-cultural experiences too: we caught the somewhat cheesy movie Made of Honour (McDreamy!) at an international-language theatre on our last day. Of course, as fate would have it, this was the same day that we bumped into Lisa, Jenn's roommate from first year, who was herself planning on attending the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra that evening. We're cultured, we swear!
In the spirit of culture experiences, we found where the Vienna Philharmonic practices their movements:
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