Vienna day 2 - meeting up with LEAPers!

Peter, Lourens and I were all in Vienna at the same time, so I played tour guide and took the guys to the Stephansdom, then Lourens and I walked the same trail through the Winter Palace and the museum quarter that I did the day before. I could walk the same route one hundred times and still find something new to see, Vienna is so complex and beautiful.

We then took a slightly different route and headed off towards the Parliament, Rathaus (City Hall) and the gardens in the area. The Parliament buildings are so spectacular with all the statues and white marble.

The Rathous is enormous and ornate and there was a film festival setting up in the gardens at the Rathaus, so it was great to walk through all the stalls.

We went through one of the gardens and ran into a Greek style temple.

We then adventured off to find the Opera House and met back up with Peter. The Opera house in Vienna is very beautiful and very famous. There were a lot of people dressed as Mozart promoting a Mozart concert in the city.

We went on a slightly errant tram adventure, and ended up at a warm memorial and fountain. The water from the fountain was piped in from the Alps.

After navigating the Ubahn we ended up back at the Stadtmitte. We met up with Tina and went out to dinner at a traditional Austrian restaurant. It was a great place to sit, eat and talk while enjoying Austrian food into the evening.