Sunday in Vienna

So, almost EVERYTHING is close on Sunday in Vienna, it's a good thing I have a few hours to kill tomorrow before my flight back to London.

I walked down to the Central area of the city and walked around the Museum District. This is a city with a LOT of museums. I took several pictures of the buildings in that area but I didn't take the time to figure out the names of the buildings I was photographing. I think I am finally feeling the exhaustion of non-stop walking around European cities. I took the metro a fair bit today but still I walked a lot too.

Vienna is a pretty city where most people are fairly friendly and speak English. The museum area had a lot of rose gardens and other pretty places to sit and relax. There are lots of guys dressed up as Mozart peddling tickets to various operas and concerts (which I probably should have purchased but I didn't).

Of the entire trip I would rate the food the best in Budapest. I had a lovely veal dish that was very interesting, but the name of this dish escapes me. I am considering taking another trip to Budapest before I go back to the states because I didn't get a chance to go and tour the castles on the Buda side, I only took pictures of what I could see from the Pest side which was still pretty impressive.

I would recommend to anyone planning on doing a tour of this part of Europe to try and stay at least 3 days in Budapest, i.e. 2 entire days where you are not travelling because I think there should be a minimum of one day spent on each side of the river.

In addition, I think that it is better to plan those days to be a Friday and a Saturday because of the early closing of places on Sundays (if they are open at all).

In all, I think I have still spent less money on this 5 day trip then I did in my two days in Norway if you don't count the airline tickets.

Also, something to note. To get from Ljubljana to Budapest takes 8-9 hours by train and to get to Vienna from Budapest by train is about 3-3.5 horus.

Ok, well I am running out of time in this internet cafe so I will close this for now. Hopefully something interesting happens tomorrow.

Until then, Take Care.

Jenn

PS I have a ton to do this weeks so I probably will not update until after my trip this weekend to Amsterdam. Except to upload this trip's pictures of course!