After Oktoberfest, we headed to Vienna. It was a long train ride, but we finally got there in the late afternoon. We got to our hostel, which was ok. We still had a lot of daylight left, so we settled in and then went out to look around. Turns out Vienna is really touristy. A lot of people dressed like Mozart, trying to sell tickets to some show. We got through that, and just kind of wandered around. We found an old church or something, but there was no sign, and no way in. It was pretty weird. We kept wandering, and stumbled on a circus! We were really interested in going to the circus, but it turned out to cost like 24 euros, which is really expensive. There was a little street fair outside of the circus, so we had dinner there. It got dark, and we headed back to the hostel to get some sleep.The next morning, we headed back into town to look at touristy things :)
We started with St. Stephan's Church, which was beautiful, and then we headed to the Imperial Apartments. On the way, we stopped at a smaller church, where we went to a little flea market, and were invited back to tour the organ that evening.We learned some history about the Habsburg empire, and then moved on to the Leopold Museum. The Leopold museum was a large private collection of some very weird art. It was quite a day.
We had dinner at a little cafe outside the museum, and then headed back to the church with the organ tour. They played some music on the organ for about 30 minutes, and then we were taken up into it for a demonstration, and to learn how organs work. It was a really cool demonstration!
After that, we wandered around a bit more, and then headed back to the hostel. We caught an early train the next morning, because Kristen had to catch the train as soon as we got back for Zurich, as her plane was leaving the next morning at 7am, yikes. Vienna was my favorite, so far. Despite all the tourists, it was really the most beautiful, that is, until I went to Dresden later. :)
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