Vienna Day 3
Brian and I started out our day with a trip to Café Central. It was a beautiful café with amazing
food as well as desserts. Of course, we had dessert with breakfast ! There is
no way I am missing out on any desserts while on this trip. They are way too pretty and delicious
to pass up. We ordered something that I could not pronounce, but it was number 20 and it involved a cinnamon cream, plum jam, and a sort of shortbread cookie. It was light and fantastic.
After our breakfast, we walked over to a shop called Xocolat
which specializes in all different types of chocolate! We made a few purchases
(of course) and spent quite some time drooling over everything. They had everything kind of chocolate imaginable and we purchased a variety of truffles for ourselves. I'll have to let you know how they are. After this it was time to do some more
sightseeing.
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Secession Museum |
We hopped on a train and returned to Karlsplatz where we walked through the Secession Museum to see some fascinating modern art and then we walked through the park and into the Karskirch. This amazing and humongous church was a site to see! Admission
was fairly inexpensive and we were able to view the entire church, a small
museum, as well as take the lift up to the top of the church. The view was amazing, though I have to
admit, I was slightly terrified being up that high and on nothing more than a
staircase constructed of wood and plastic. Needless to say, I felt much safer once back on the
ground. After Karlskirch, we began
our walk to the Belvedere.
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Karlskirch |
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On the way to the Belvedere |
The Belvedere: this stunning art museum is a must see if you
are ever in Austria. Brian and I
went to the upper Belvedere first and spent time viewing all the
paintings. After this, we walked through
the amazing gardens to get to the lower Belvedere. This section had fewer paintings, but it housed some
stunning work from more modern painters.
We both agreed that this place would be somewhere we could spend hours
if we had the time, but I was unfortunately starving at this point and so we
headed out to find some food.
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The Belvedere |
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Belvedere Gardens |
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Hofburg Palace |
We took a train to Café Demel. This was exciting as we were super disappointed to find it
closed yesterday. Today we took no
chances. We arrived around 4 to
find a bustling restaurant with lines everywhere. We waited for around 30 minutes to get a seat in the
non-smoking section and ordered dinner as well as TWO desserts. I ordered a noodle souffle and Brian ordered the egg dumplings. For dessert we had a layered sponge-cake with chocolate frosting and a layered chocolate cake with hazelnut frosting. Everything was fantastic and Café Demel
certainly lived up to it’s famous reputation. After dinner, we walked past the Palace and over to the Opera house. It was a beautiful walk. After all this walking, and eating, we were stuffed and exhausted. We decided to head back to the hostel
to take a break and possibly a nap.
We got back around 6:30 and fell asleep around 7. The plan was to nap and then head out
to find a cute bar or possibly a club.
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Demel's Pastry Chefs |
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Egg Noodles |
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Noodle Souffle |
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Dessert Selection at Cafe Demel (some of it) |
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Staatstoper Opera House |
Around midnight, we woke up, wide awake, and amused at how
we napped for 5 hours…anyways, we headed downstairs, got free drinks from the
bar in our hostel and spent some time just hanging out. Even though we did not make it back out
we had an amazing day and caught up on some much needed sleep. After being wide-awake for around 3
hours, I fell back to sleep. Brian
couldn’t sleep and ended up staying up for the rest of the night! Oh well, we
do get to rest on a 3 hour train ride to Salzburg tomorrow!
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Sign for the Train Bathrooms... |
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