Recapping Vienna

Wow!  WHat a weekend in Vienna.  I was lucky enough to be hosted all weekend by Hedi and Andrea!  I can not thank the both of them enough for having me to stay and showing me the city!  I wouldn't have seen anywhere as much as what I did without them and I wouldn't have had nearly as much fun!  

On the first evening I arrived I was greeted by Andrea with a sign welcoming me to Vienna - so cute!  We then went to meet Hedi a little bit further into town.  Here we tried the most delightful ice creams at a special shop called Eis Greissler.  It is a very small shop and they both informed me that the line is regularly far, far down the street.  Andrea had the most daring ice cream - feta - which actually wasn't too bad!  I had a pear ice cream that was to die for!  It tasted like real pears you could taste the texture of the pear! YUM!  We then continued to walk around the city looking at sites until we stopped in to again have some devine food at an Italian restaurant. 

The next day we went to the markets in the morning for breakfast!  I had a Turkish breakfast and it was soo good!  My favourite would have been the fried pastry with feta and basil inside it!  Hedi told me it was easy to do, and I could try it at home, I can't wait!  We then carried on to Museum Square one of Andrea's favourite places where you are surrounded in museums.  There was a small exhibition on fashion and technology which was really interesting and had some crazy dresses!  Mum you will like to see the photos of these!  We then choose the Mumok which was a more modern museum and I was lucky enough to at the end stumble upon some Pop Art which I had studied earlier this year and at school. We went to another famous ice cream shop and had more ice cream yum which was good as the weather was hot hot hot!  Andrea then took me out that night and we went to what is called the Night walk where there are just bars after bars and people sit outside drinking and listening to live bands.  It was great fun and we even stopped into a jazz bar and managed to catch the last of the set from a great jazz band.  

After a super duper sleep in the next day we went to the Belvedere which was an old summer palace that is now an art museum.  There is a big celebration this whole year in Vienna for one of their most famous artists Klimt so here we were able to see lots of his works!  Hedi and her Husband Rudi then took me out for dinner to a place along a channel of the Danube called Motto am Fluss.  Here I was able to try some typical Viennese food.  

On the last day in Vienna we went to another famous Viennese artist's exhibition Hundertwasser.  Hundertwasser is also famous to NZ as he lived there and designed a flag for us in 2000.  This managed to take up about all of the time I had left in Vienna one quick taste of a Viennese snitchzel and then off to the airport.  

Thank you again to Hedi and Andrea for my beautiful weekend in Vienna.  It was short but we managed to do a lot!  And for everything else I left out I will just have to come back!