Prague to Vienna...

From Prague, we made our way to Vienna, Austria.  Paul and I checked into our hotel which was a good 20 minute walk from downtown, and went to get this growing boy something to eat for dinner.   We stopped at a Pizza place and Paul bought a massive slice for 2.90Euro.  It may have been veal, but we’ll classify it as “mystery meat” for now.  I guess that’s what happens when you can’t read a German menu. 

We were going to save Pizza for Italy, but with a price like that...

After pizza, we walked a little farther to a Gelato shop and shared a treat.  The place was recommended in the Rick Steve’s book and it lived up to its recommendation.  We ordered cookies and cream and were served Biscotti, whoops!  We walked back to the hotel and crashed early.  We didn’t sleep on the bus at all, and Paul was up extra early running, while I stayed in the hotel to do yoga, it was too dark for me to venture out alone for a run or a metro ride.

Today we are spending the day in Vienna and had a guided tour with a local guide this morning.  We were able to see a lot of the city center this morning and last night.  By far the best part was entering St. Stephens church or cathedral.  It was breathtaking, and massive.  The art and decorations were stunning. 

The inside was spectacular!  I have video of the inside, but our camera died! Argh!

Vienna walking tour, pretty chilly morning in Vienna, even for Wisconsinites!

Yesterday on the bus we turned in our optional tour sheet, and we only selected one excursion out of like 15-20!  Paul and I chose to do the Rome optional tour and dinner.  We will be walking around the city and then having a traditional Italian dinner with the group, not to mention, free flowing wine.  It’s pricey, but worth it, because we will be spending our full day in Rome on a Sunday.  Sunday means that everything is closed, so it is somewhat essential that we tour Rome the evening before. 

We were the only two that opted out of a trip to Pisa; but that was an honest accident.  If we didn’t want to go, we would have held the whole group back and would have been everyone’s arch enemy.  The tour guide politely asked if we would consider joining, and we of course said we would go.  So that’s another destination we will be visiting, hopefully!  A trip to Pisa would be great, because I don’t’ know when you would make that a tour destination; it would be handy to be able to see the tour while in transit from Italy to Switzerland.