• Oh Vienna !

    February 16, 2012 in Austria ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C

    Breakfast was very good. Arven had green tea for the anti oxidants ( to counteract the beer)
    We headed off to visit St Stephen's Cathedral. It is lovely. Then we walked up the Graben to the Hof. It was very very very cold, too cold to snow even.
    We went to Cafe Central, very posh with arched ceiling and a mega cool cake counter. the coffee was nice too.
    Then off to Maria Hilper Strasse to shop. We were not impressed, very downmarket. We decided to cut our losses and headed to the Albertina to see the Impressionists exhibition. It was impressive.
    They had all the biggies and 3 rooms of Magritte, it was only on for 10 weeks so we were lucky to see it.
    We were starving after all that art, so we called into Frauenhaler Cafe on our way back to the hotel. Its a bit like the Cirio in Brussels. Food was good, sausage and beer and spinach with rosti.
    We strolled through the posh shopping streest and headed back to hotel to rest and pack. Dinner was at Beim Czaak, near the hotel. It was quaint, no tourists, locals but food was good. We called into Starbucks to get water and met a girl who had been to college in Galway !!! Psychology. We discussed the rain in Galway.

    Last day tomorrow....
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