vienna
so we traveled to vienna this weekend with all the exchange students. everything was amazingly beautiful. we did so much sightseeing. friday evening we arrived in vienna and had to find our way to the hostel. we only got lost once or twice and had to ask for directions once. but we finally made it there. we ate dinner and then had a little speech about vienna and then free time! we went out into the city and explored. everything was so different than my small town of wels. we made itback to the hostel around 12 and went straight to bed.
breakfast was at 7:15 and then we left for a walking tour of the first district. we saw the statue of Maria-Theresia between the twin museums…i went into the Naturhistorisches Museum with about half the of exchange students. after an hour we walked toward Stephensplatz and the Stephensdom…the cathedral which is over 900 years old and is now being ‘cleaned’ of the marks from the bombs of WWII. after seeing that we had lunch. and then we went to Schönbrunn Palace. it was the viennese summer residence for austrian royalty for many decades. the castle was built by the ruling Habsburgs and has 1,441 rooms. one of austrias great rulers, Maria Theresia, resided in the palace and gave birth to most of her 16 children there, including Marie Antoinette. (’If the peasants dont have bread, let them eat cake!’). after we finished the tour there it was our duty to find our way back to the hostel by ourselves. which we were successful. then we ate dinner and got ready for the opera! we saw ‘Die Zauberflöte’…the Magic Flute by Mozart. it was different. very strange and hard to follow because it was all in german. after that we went out into the city for a few hours and then back to the hostel to sleep.
sunday morning we had a bus tour of vienna. we saw so many different things. Ruprechtskirche….the oldest church in vienna…Hundertwasserhaus, the Danube River and Canal, the Secession building, the Austrian Parliament with the statue of Athena, Ringstrasse, Karlskirche, Wien Oper Haus…basically we saw just about everything.
sunday afternoon we took a train back to wels and well here i am again. in wels!
breakfast was at 7:15 and then we left for a walking tour of the first district. we saw the statue of Maria-Theresia between the twin museums…i went into the Naturhistorisches Museum with about half the of exchange students. after an hour we walked toward Stephensplatz and the Stephensdom…the cathedral which is over 900 years old and is now being ‘cleaned’ of the marks from the bombs of WWII. after seeing that we had lunch. and then we went to Schönbrunn Palace. it was the viennese summer residence for austrian royalty for many decades. the castle was built by the ruling Habsburgs and has 1,441 rooms. one of austrias great rulers, Maria Theresia, resided in the palace and gave birth to most of her 16 children there, including Marie Antoinette. (’If the peasants dont have bread, let them eat cake!’). after we finished the tour there it was our duty to find our way back to the hostel by ourselves. which we were successful. then we ate dinner and got ready for the opera! we saw ‘Die Zauberflöte’…the Magic Flute by Mozart. it was different. very strange and hard to follow because it was all in german. after that we went out into the city for a few hours and then back to the hostel to sleep.
sunday morning we had a bus tour of vienna. we saw so many different things. Ruprechtskirche….the oldest church in vienna…Hundertwasserhaus, the Danube River and Canal, the Secession building, the Austrian Parliament with the statue of Athena, Ringstrasse, Karlskirche, Wien Oper Haus…basically we saw just about everything.
sunday afternoon we took a train back to wels and well here i am again. in wels!
