We arrived on the train last night, checked into our cute and artsy hotel.
Then grabbed dinner at a nearby bar. All very lovely.
Rain is expected tomorrow so we’re doing outdoor things today.
We walked all around Central Vienna (singing Oh Vienna at the top of our lungs - It never gets old).
We saw a couple incredible churches St Stephen’s and St Peter’s.
And we walked down the main shopping street - It has a cheese store! I tried about 94 cheeses including a purple one that was lavendar flavored.
Today we learned about two kick ass Ladies... First Marie Teresa. She was the only female Habsburg ruler. Her father passed a law so that he could hand the power over to her. She ruled for 40 years and had 16 children - Most of who she married off to other royalty around Europe so she could have larger influence. One of her kids was Marie Antoinette. Here’s a statue of Marie Teresa
At the Hofburg Palace - where the Habsburgs lived for 600 years - We learned about Queen Elizabeth - Also known as Princess Sisi (Pronounced like CC). We actually heard a lot about her in Budapest - she was quite a fan of the Hungarians and helped them gain some freedoms when her husband was king. Everyone loved Sisi - And she was murdered while she was traveling so she was kind of an 1800s version of Princess Diana. I can’t find a photo of her but here’s the palace.
After the palace we went over to one of the many museums. This one called the Kunsthistoriches - not kidding- that’s the name of it. Go ahead, Mike Schmitt tell us how to say it!
We’re in front of it here...
When we left the museum it was starting to get windy and cold - plus we were tired of walking - so we went back to the hotel to freshen up and find a place close by for dinner.
We stopped for a beer on our way to dinner...
We ate at a kinda traditional place for dinner - I had Weiner Schnitzel!
When we left the restaurant it was even more windy and cold - We had to fight the wind to get back to our hotel!
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