A walk of the cottage district.

We are down to the last few days of our trip. Thursday the girls decided they wanted to go shopping so they went off by themselves to shop at some very exclusive stores such as H and M. Cheryl and I went for a walk that I had come across on a travel blog in the cottage district of Vienna. Cottage was an under exaggeration as they were huge mansions many of which had been converted into apartments or embassies although some were still single houses. The houses had been built around 1910 and had been either owned by famous entertainers or people in the construction/architect industries. Cheryl thought that was rather ironic as everyone in our neighborhood with a nice house seems to be in the construction industry. We wandered around the route as the day gradually got warmer. We took a couple hours to finished the route and by then we were quite hot. We stopped for a coffee before heading off to the pool and some refuge from the heat. In the evening Cheryl and I ventured out into the heat to visit Hundertwasserhaus . Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment building built in the 80s by the architect Hundertwasser. It has no straight lines and they have incorporated vegetation into the side of the building with trees and bushes growing out of various balconies etc. The building has social housing apartments which supposedly are not very desirable as they are quite small. It was fun to look at and got us out of the apartment.Leggi altro