From Budapest we head onwards to Vienna!
Historically Vienna is the center of Central Europe with all the most talented artist like Beethoven, Mozart came to play their music. It was a metropolitan city with a diverse mix of culture and people and the buildings that is left behind today reminds us of those golden ages. (You will never NOT have enough photos to take!) Today, it feels like a German city that still has a lot to offer but it is not what it used to be.
I had 2 group of friends in Vienna but one was in Rome travelling. Luckily the other had just finished their exams and I could spend time with them! Boating in the Denube River because it was so hot, cooking at their apartment because it is expensive to eat out, and swimming at the swimming pool because again it was so hot.
Vienna is also famous for its morbid culture (likes death; there is a very big cemetery for all sorts of religion of people like catholics, buddhism, islam, orthodox church, etc. called Zentralfriedhof where graves are shared by the family and also famous musicians like beethoven, schubert, etc. can be found here)
An observation in Vienna is that people in Europe do not use fans or air-con much! Its so crazy especially when a heat wave passes and everyone seems to be dying...well luckily it doesn't happen very often phew! (Singaporeans in Vienna all complaining).
In the end even though Vienna is supposed to be the most expensive city, I ended up spending one of the least as I ate with my friends and just spend the day walking around the city which is really a piece of art itself. NEXT STOP: CZECH REPUBLIC!!!
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| St Stephen Church |
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| Watching FREE live opera outside the opera house. Can't understand anything haha |
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| Musician Wonderland! |
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| There are 2 of these each facing each other. Both housing a different museum. |
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| Useless but nice rome style building. |
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| Their parliament house i think |
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| Emerging from the trees is Rathaus or the city hall...my picture did 1% justice of how nice it looks. |
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| Vortivkurche - I refuse to take the front view photo as there is a huge billboard in the middle. |
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| Along the danube river is a very hippy stretch of canal with lots of grafitti and beach bars and people hanging out! |
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| Vienna at night! |
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| Another thing famous in Vienna is its coffee culture! |
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| My hands shielding from the glare that is Beethoven's grave |
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| Belvedere is like a small Versailles |
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| The so called stairways to heaven... |
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| A replica of Sigmund Freud (who was from Vienna) famous lounge chair |
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| The famous Hotel Sacher cake...taste like a good chocolate cake. |
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| Boating is fun. Boat is very slow. |
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| Swimming to beat off the heat! |
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