I absolutely love Vienna! I rank it just a tad higher than Thailand and Edinburgh as one of my favorite places to visit. Vienna is bursting with museums, stunning palaces, beautiful parks and art galleries that can rival Paris. Viennese know how to enjoy culture and the good life. What I really appreciated the most were the tons of cafes. It was like having a Starbucks on every corner. You’d think with that many cafes that they would have a hard time staying in business, but that’s not the case, the cafes appear to always be full, all the them.
I never saw so many huge buildings, Viennese architecture is quite astounding, some buildings take up a whole block, I mean the entire square block. Many of them are the hotels Vienna Austria are known for being grand. So, I just spent my whole first day walking around and admiring all these huge, huge buildings and soaking up the atmosphere. Naturally, a made a stop at one of the cafes for a good people watching episode. Vienna coffee is excellent, better than the coffee in Italy, at least for me it was. There are also many, many bakeries and pasty shops, which kept me quite busy having to check out everyone one I came to on my walk around the city. I samples almost every conceivable pastry and bread that I didn’t need lunch or dinner. I was so full from all the samples, but that didn’t stop me from trying to find the best pasty shop in town, one who’s specialty is ‘sacher torte’. Some of the more expensive pastry shops, offers samples, but the pastries themselves are very expensive. I felt like I should pay for the samples, but I didn’t, I just said thank you and left.
Vienna, despite being very old, does have a metropolitan feel about it and it’s clean. I really did want to have lunch or dinner at one the more expensive restaurants, but after all those pastry samples, I think I’ll call it quits for the day and head back to my hotel room and rest up for another day of visual and tasteful delights!
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