Vienna

Hallo!

Last weekend we had a trip to Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava! The trip was organized by pm2am student trips and cost 149 € including transportation, two nights in a hostel in Budapest and sightseeing tours in every city we visited. The trip started on Thursday evening and we were supposed to come back on Monday morning (more about that later...!).

Thursday evening at 18 we left Köln and drove all evening and night to Vienna, Austria! We arrived there in the morning and spent the day there :)
First we had a guided sightseeing tour by walking. The guide was really nice :) We saw all the most popular sight seeings in Vienna.

Vienna Parliament

Vienna Rathaus (City hall)

State Hall, National Library Vienna

Finnish flag!

They were already installing the Christmas decorations in the city center

St. Stephen's Cathedral

After the tour we had approximately 6 hours of free time! We were really hungry so the first thing to do was to find a restaurant and eat :)

Jenna ate Schnitzel

Maiju ate Gulasch

We decided to eat something different for a change so Jenna ordered a schnitzel (pork steak) and Maiju ate Gulasch (beef). Prices were affordable and the food was ok. Nothing special and not the best, but ok. Then we decided to go and see the popular Belvedere, because during the sightseeing tour we had no time to go there and the guide recommended us to go there.

It appeared to be further away than we thought and it took a lot of time for us to find the place :D Also Ana and Caio from Brazil wanted to go there so we decided to spend the rest of the day together. First some pictures taken when we tried to find Belvedere! :D

We found Mozart! ;)

and a cute bunny!

When we found Belvedere, we were quite disappointed because you couldn't go in without paying for an art exhibition. Luckily in the backyard there was a beautiful garden, so it was not totally in vain going there :)

Jenna and her new bff

Then we wanted to go and see a castle! :D Ana told us that she wants to go and see it, because every chocolate bar coming from Austria has a picture of it :D Nobody of us really knew what was it, but we asked about it from the desk in Belvedere and a friendly lady told us how to get there. We took a tram and about in twenty minutes we arrived to Schloss Schönbrunn! It is a castle which used to be Maria Theresia's (Sisi) home! Nowadays they arrange concerts etc. there.

Jenna, Maiju and Caio

After that we went back to the city centre to do  some souvenir shopping and also have a coffee in Aida, which is a cafe the guide recommended for us :) The cakes were delicious and prices were not bad! Such a nice place :) Even though the waitress was really rude: at first she didn't bring everything we ordered and blamed us for that, then she forgot Jenna's drink and in the end we needed to wait for the check a long time. Maybe a bad day...

Ana had SOME spare coins... :D

Then it was time to get in the bus and travel to Budapest! We will tell about it in the next post :)

Maiju&Jenna