It has been a very long
time since my last post! It has been over a month and we have now moved into
our apartment and started settling in. We found an apartment on one of the most
historical streets in downtown Vicenza and are surrounded by local pasta shops,
bakeries, and butcher shops as well as one of the best gelaterie, Gelateria
Brustolon, right down the street. We even lucked out and have a small terrace!
We have ventured out quite a
bit and found many delicious restaurants in the area, as well as many fun
places to try at night. The other night we tried L'Oste Sconto and it was delicious! We have even discovered a place
for PJ to get his eggs and bacon in the morning [Borsa Bar]. They also have happy hour and live music on some
nights. There are a lot of hidden places to try and we are working on that.
We have taken a few trips
since the beginning of February so I will write about our trip to Vienna,
Austria in this post.
We left on Friday, February
15th and returned on Monday, February 18th. Flights were expensive
so we opted to take the train to Venezia, hop a bus to Villach, Austria, and
then hop an Austrian train [OBB] to Vienna. It took about 7 hours to get there but we
were able to take in the sights along the way.
We stayed at Wombats City Hostel Vienna - The Lounge, which is a different one than I had stayed at
before, and booked a 2-person room and private bathroom. I would highly
recommend it to anyone traveling to Vienna in a group or alone.
On Saturday we ventured
into downtown, our first stop was Stephansplatz and we explored St. Stephens Cathedral , which has 230,000 colorful glazed tiles
and a south tower that stands 136.7 meters tall.
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| St. Stephens Cathedral |
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| St. Stephens Cathedral |
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| St. Stephens Cathedral |
We spent the first half of
the day wondering around downtown and saw many sights including:
Pestsaule – A well-known sculpture in
Vienna, which was built in response to the Plague.
Hofburg Palace
Spanische Hofreitschule – The Spanish Riding School building.
Reiterstandbild Erzherzog Karl
Theseustempel
Parliament Building
Rathauspark
City Hall Building
Weihnachtsdorf Maria-Theresien Platz/ Kunsthistorisches Museum/ Naturhistorisches Museum
The museum Quarter
Mumok
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| Pestsaule |
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| Pestsaule |
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| Mumok |
We
then had lunch at Schnitzelwirt, which served
two huge pieces of wienerschnitzel with cabbage and potatoes. Lunch was
delicious!
PJ
and I finished our day going to das wiener riesenrad, which is a large Ferris
wheel to the north east of the city. While riding the wheel one can look out
over Vienna, and on a clear day even see the mountains. The Ferris Wheel was
originally built to celebrate the Golden Jubilee but had to be rebuilt due to a
fire that destroyed it.
On
Sunday we decided to explore outside of the main city area and headed to Schönbrunn Palace, where we walked around the
property and ate some apple strudel.
We were also able
to travel to Zentralfriedhof, which is where people like Franz Schubert, Ludwig
van Beethoven, Arnold Schoenberg, Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, Ludwig Boltzmann, and many more are buried.
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