Sightseeing Vienna
This is the part the whole group attended.
We did a lot of sightseeing today in Vienna. We started early around 8:00 AM after a reasonable breakfast at Courtyard. It was a very functional breakfast room and the service was reasonable although they could do with a few more serving staff as there were other groups besides ours.
We visited the Rococo style Schönbrunn Palace (UN Heritage Site) and its environs, the huge plaza with the fountain followed by the bus tours of downtown Vienna. We made a tour of Ringstrasse and had a break at the Goudi styled Hundertwasser haus. It was very nice and something out of the ordinary. The similarly styled Hundertwasser shopping area was also attractive and we had a very good guide.
We wanted to see the short opera pieces they arrange for tourists but we could not find the correct performance schedule. It was a pity. We wanted to see a Klimt at Leopold Museum but we were dog tired. We ate at a buffet place(Rosenberg) suggested by our tour director, sauntered a while near the Opera and decided to see the ‘Monet and Picasso’ at Albertina Museum. It was expensive and there were very few themed paintings. We had seen lot more in our earlier travels and in New York. Well Klimt is to Vienna as Mozart is to Salzberg. Klimt branded stuff is everywhere, shirts, blouses, drapery, over wear, underwear, chocolates and you name it.
There was also an optional event in the evening today, the Viennese traditional Heurigen dinner. We skipped. Being a vegetarian I would have been an inconsonant participant.
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