Vienna, Austria

This weekend was a holiday weekend in Baden-Wüttenburg (my home province) and so I had time to go on a long weekend trip!! This meant lots of early trains and not a lot of sleep, but I got to see a lot of Austria!

On thursday, my friend Meaghan and I took the train to Vienna! Having been there before (with the fabulous Katie) I was the Viennese expert, and I dragged her to all sorts of fun and interesting places ...

Here's the Hoffburgh, in which are the Kaiserappartments (very opulent 19th century Hapsburgh residence) and the Empress Sisi Museum (It was even weirder a second time)

Here I am at one of Maria Theresa's prudy fountains ...

All the bronzes had to keep their clothes on, what a shame.

After being good tourists, and dragging ourselves around the whole city, we rewarded ourselves with desserts at Demel, a Vieneese Konditori since 1786 (Their website calls themselves "The Demel", I love it).

Meaghan seems thrilled with her extremely pretty ice cream ...

even my coffee is fancy:

We even made it out to Schloss Schönbrunn, the Emperial summer residence of the Hapsburghs.

Here are Meaghan, and then me, looking triumphant after climbing up the Palace's Gardens: