Vienna

Butterfly Garden

Inside of the Butterfly Garden

St. Stevens Cathedral 

We made it to Vienna at about 730 in the morning. We left out stuff at the hostel and went out in the rain to walk around. We saw the huge and elaborate Hofburg palace and went into a butterfly sanctuary which was attached. The butterfly place had them flying all around felt like we were in a rain forest. We went to a Viennese restaurant for lunch which was really good. Finally, we were in a city where the prices were "cheap" compared to everywhere we had been! We were able to budget ourselves very well in Vienna. The lunch was very heavy an we went back to take a nap at the hostel (Ley Ley recommended this hostel). It was nice to be in a "real" bed where I didn't even feel the need to use the sheet thing I brought to sleep in. Joanna and I shared a double bed, and the room was big enough for just about that. My huge suitcase barely fit in the room! After our nap, the weather had turned into cool air with the sunset. We went back to the area with all of the famous palaces and architecture. We went to a gothic cathedral called Stephansdom. They were having mass inside so we won't in a watched that for a few minutes. We walked all around this area. It was so pretty at this time of night! We ate at the Swarovski crystal little pop up café in the middle of the street (Austria is the home of Swarovski). We sat there for hours people watching. After, we went to the famous/ historical hotel Sacher get their chocolate torte that Ley Ley told us about. Joanna and I split one with a glass of red wine and it was so good. The hotel was super fancy, so it was exciting to eat in there. Thankfully the prices of the torte and wine were not high at all! We took the metro back to our hostel to get a good nights sleep.

Dinner at the Swarovski Cafe

Chocolate Torte

Schonbrunn Palace 

On Saturday, we woke up and took the bus to the Scholob Schönbrun palace. It reminded me a lot of Versailles. We got ear guide machines and went through a lot of the rooms. That was about all we had time to do in our short stay in Vienna. The architecture there was beautiful but I feel like we got to see most of the things we wanted to see. The only thing I wanted to see that I didn't was the Gustav Klimt art exhibits. Right now I am on the train to Prague. We had an open ticket which meant we could pick any time to leave, so we decided to leave on the 2 pm train to get to Prague around 7.