Out From Antartica: APRIL 2015

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson

4 DAYS IN VIENNA

Arrival in Austria airport all is clearly indicated even if you don't speak german. You will reach the center for only 4.20€ with OBB ticket & the must have for a cool cityfari, your Vienna card just 21.90€ for 3 days available at the desk of your hotel or tourist office information.

CCE Calm Clean & Empty in a way !!!

It amaizing to see horses sharing street with cars or tramway and bycicles. By foot it's easy & more interesting to make a round walk and discover the center

with various monuments

lot of unusual Clock

funny fountain as this splendid " vormals universifâfplatz "

Some co travelers are planing a pitcher of beer for an evening :-) I will taste a special glass of water.

In front St Etienne Cathedral you could buy a ticket to assist at a wiener royal orchester "Mozart & Strauss Konzerte" at Beethoven Platz 1 or another from your choice as Schubert ...

Personnaly sensitive to Beethoven for having play it many times during my piano lessons when i was a kid. It will cost you around 39€ for a beautiful resonance of instruments and voices.

The konzert was fabulous but in a real opera it will be just incredible

For lovers you can reach the concert in carriage or follow it outside some evenings for free.

There is probably one Church for 20 Citizen

View from the rooftof

of St Etienne cathedral

a cute fountain design in the shopping district

The town architecture is very wonderful

Austria is definitively the city of churchs highly decorated

At karlplatz, this Church is certainly the most impressive and the entrance is expensive in opposite to others.

Generously loaded with gilt decoration, statues, sculptures, historical objects of any kind and sometimes confusing

for addict glam girlies it change from limousine more natural with personnal driver ;-)

Time for lunch a typical schnitzel

with a vienna coffee

Starter for a green afternoon always in the center upstraight the St Etienne street.

Cradled by ambient music, looking up at the beautiful sculptures carved on top of buildings.

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Neue Burg is a charming entrance at Hofburg Castle

Eyes feel captured by the top of magnificent buildings, engraved with sumptuous scuptures.

Place to nature at Hofburg Castle

Let breathe Nature ...

And wonderful design gardens around Hofburg.

Hand design with spectacular result

Place to a strange building very popular for tourist

Must see only for the architectural prowess, pure curiosity.

Local dress for the Tyrol escape

Famous Sacher chocolate dessert, must taste ...energy needed for great journey Under rain.

Welcome to Belvedere Castle, the ticket will cost you 16.50€

Amazed by splendid murals

On sunny day this place can reveal all its charm.

Pics are prohibited, visits demonstrate the significant contribution of the finiest dishes from France. And know more about a part of hstory of Austria

Back to the city center a quick traditionnal hot dog remember me my native country germany and place for Schônbrun Castle, reachable by subway.

the ticket for Schlos Schônbrunn will cost you 16.70€. Avoid the affluence early in the morning, best time for starting visit is lunch time

Here we are green, great and georgous Schônbrun Castle with lot of french touch Inside

Pleasant to breathe nature although this is man-made.

the visit of different exhibition halls are sublime and very instructive about Austria history.

You could be Lucky to cross a squirrel

Funny place

One of my favorite place in Vienna after

Like a village Inside Schönbrunn park castle, is the Church and the greenhouse

Long walk to climb for a panoramic view of the castle before joining another spot of the city

Meadow sky view around Cobenzl

It need to take a subway station U4 Heiligensatdt, then a bus line 38A who will leave you at this highlight.
Brave travellers can realise it by foot as a chalenge...

from Leopoldsberg spot an impressive view and a moment of meditation

Over the area revealing another beautiful castle

The best for the end, the bellevuewiese in the extension of the Himmelstrasse. End evening in a beautiful village vineyard

With heuriger musik

Warning be there at 6pm not after and do not waste your time in a pub cause the old & famous restaurant are good and extremely popular without booking after 6pm it will be diffiuclt to have a sit.