28. Vienna Austria

Our trains ran very late getting us from Bratislava to Vienna, so we found ourselves with just a few hours to see the city before taking off for Salzberg tomorrow.

Craig has been here before - over 50 years ago he spent a semester studying here. And get this - while we were wandering the city, he stopped suddenly, pointing to the street name and said "I can't believe it - this is the street I lived on". Needless to say we tracked down his dorm building, (which is now a music building), and he reminisced about the days of picking up girls with his recently acquired German language skills.

We went to see St. Stephens Cathedral. At 448 ft high, it is the most important religious building in Vienna, and the seat of Archbishop of Vienna. When Craig said he thought I should see the cathedral, I may have rolled my eyes in disdain. Another church?

I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw it from the outside, and my mouth hung open when we stepped inside. I don't think I've seen any building so stunning as this one. I regret that the pix here come nowhere close to doing justice to the reality.

We wrapped up our day with the mandatory Weiner schnitzel dinner - delicious!Read more