Vienna

Vienna was the last stop on our November trip around the European Continent. It was a sad time for the both of us as our awesome trip was coming to an end, but it turns out that Vienna is a nice romantic city we could relax in. We toured the city by ourselves, first walking to the museum districts and then we ended up finding the Austrian Parliament building, gowned with beautiful architecture. We also found ourselves in a traditional Austrian Christmas Market in Rathaus-platz, sipping on some spiced hot wine in a cool Vienna mug. This Christmas Market is based on Austrian beers, wines, chocolates, and traditional crafts and baking; quite enough to get you satisfied, and we would highly recommend traveling in November or December just to visit these Markets that are found all over Europe around Christmas time. It was also here that Colleen discovered that "wieners" are from Wien (Vienna) after seeing a really large sign advertising the Wieners. After going easy on the chocolates, we decided to walk across the beautiful blue Danube (it's green over there), and we found ourselves at the base of a giant ferris wheel, which carries small rooms that can fit around 10 people instead of 2-seater chairs. It's found in a park called Prater, which also has a small carnival with rides and food vendors. It was a bit late in the season when we were there and so we were the only ones walking down the foggy boulevard. We went on the Go-Karts a total of 3 times, and Colleen beat Jesse every time. The rest of our trip was spent looking at old palaces, touring palace grounds, visiting different markets and visiting Vienna's Museum of Ethnology, where we saw the famous Montezuma's feather headdress. The city was wonderful, and we would definitely like to have had more time to visit the famous Opera and the different museums around this city that is full of so much history. But alas, we had to move on, and in order to catch our flight from Linz, a smaller Austrian town two hours northwest of Vienna, we had to leave Vienna at 05:44, which means we had to get to bed early the night before. We're writing this now that in London, after safely arriving and making it back to our hostel this morning. Thank you for all your well wishes and for reading. This post marks the end of our November adventure, but be warned, there will be more adventures to come...