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I am currently living and working as an aupair near Zurich, traveling in my free time, learning German, and enjoying fantastic cheese and wine!

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Wien, Osterreich (Vienna, Austria)

Pictures are out of order! Sorry!!
At Sisi's Schonbrunn Schloss!


Water fountain!!




Money at the Fine arts museum in Vienna
Ancient piggy banks
Love this painting!!! Paintings within a painting. :-D



St. Stephan's Dom!



This was awesome!
Crocodile mummy!
I loved the Egyptian section of the fine arts museum!
Money from the piggy atm!?!
Enjoyed the rides at the "Prater" near the "Donou" (the river Danube)
Loved this guy and his paintings! We watched him paint the green one and it was amazing! All with spray paint!
Mozart house and "blutgasse" where a brutal Turkish siege occured in which many were slaughtered.


The Dom or Cathedral and below I am lying down on the ground in order to get a full shot of the church and as I was doing so these two guys start walking in my direction. I thought well surely they will move as the one guy saw me and in laughing in the picture below, but his friend didn't see me and nearly fell on top of me! :-)

Christ . . . yesterday, today, and forever!
I loved these bottles and below a beautiful statue on Marie Theresa's coffin in the Imperial Crypt.
Maira Theresa's Coffin in which she is buried I believe next to her husband.


Old money in a window of a cute little antique shop!
The bonbon store where we tried the famous Mozart chocolates, which were actually rather gross.
Deborah and Myself in the store!
Roses in the garden of the Hofburg!
Mozart statue in the Hofburg gardens!
Eros and Psyche! Love C.S. Lewis' adaptation of the old greek mythology of the two lovers.
The Hofburg Beggers here have the crosses.
Wien ist sehr schon und ich musst zuruckt bekommen. I loved the city and there was so much to see that two days was certainly not enough for to see all. I still didn't make it to the Zentralfreidhof or the Donau (Danube river) but hopefully soon before I leave I can travel back!! The Zentralfreidhof is the huge cemetary were many composers are buried like Beethoven and Strass I believe, as well as possibly Schubert. Definitely worth a wee stroll!! And of course more time was needed in the SchonBrunn Palace Gardens and of course to actually go in, which we did not have time for. :-/ But the places we did go to on our whirlwind tour were so much fun and absolutely lovely. And the hostel, Westend city hostel, was perfect for central location as it was just a 2 min walk to the underground. Oh, and the Metro system was so easy, loved it.