Every year the Vienna Philharmonic puts on a free concert at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. This year it drew 100,000 people. We decided to get their early and try to hear the concert from up on the hill. We have seen people...
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We love to go to the Haus des Meeres (Aquarium). It is a great place to spend rainy days, and Vienna has plenty of those! The first stop is always to pet the Koi fish near the entrance. We also really love the deep sea tank with...
Still a little more back blogging from our last couple weeks. We met one of Chris’ MBA friends and went to the Cafe Schwarzenburg. We were supposed to be going to a Chocolate Festival, but the place where the festival was...
Germany & Austria are probably the only countries where you’ll ever see a Camper Trailer being towed by a BMW! Not much cultural to observe here. But it’s a house overrun with weeds. In Vienna. Around the corner...
This post has pics from the last couple weeks in Vienna with various friends we met at church. I will admit that I feel the most homesick for Vienna when we go to church here in America. It is so different, I miss the diversity...
One of the last touristy things we did in Vienna was to visit the Imperial Crypt and take the kids out for a fancy cup of hot chocolate.This crypt is where many of the Haupsburgs are burried. Needless to say the coffins are very...
Well… we’ve already left Vienna, but we still have more Vienna stuff to put online!Our friend Jahangir is a painter, so we thought he would like to see the Kunsthistorisches Museum with us. This is also our first trip...
To continue with our way behind blog posting… we tried out this awesome thermal spa in Vienna called Therme Wien. There are a whole bunch of different swimming pools, inside, outside, warm, cold, warmer, different mineral...
We were headed to the crypt to see the Imperial tombs, when we passed by the Haus der Musik museum. I had heard it is a really fun museum and interactive for kids, so we decided to check it out instead of the more creepy crypt...
A couple weeks ago when we were house-sitting, it snowed. Out in the 19th district we got about 2 feet of snow even though the city center only had about 6 inches…So Chris built an igloo in the backyard. It was a two-three...