Oh....Vienna...

jill
Oct 4, 2017
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Got up early and made it to the RIGHT train on time :-) Got into Vienna about 945, stored my bag, and headed out. First stop: take the Vienna Ring Tour. The city is set up in a circular route (a "ringstrasse")--most of the major sites are along this circle, so there is a bus that takes you to them all in about 30 minutes. Sadly, it isn't a hop on hop off bus, so you have to take pictures quickly from the windows of the bus. It does, however, orient you to the city's layout.

After this quick trip around the city, I headed to the Museumsquartier to check out the MUMOK modern art museum. Sadly, sort of boring...reminded me of the one in Amsterdam--just pretentious stuff, nothing that great. Cool building, though. Behind it, I saw the entrance to the Street Art Passage, but couldn't figure out if it led to something else, or if this "entrance" was all there was. Did see a large work by Invader who does tile works (usually in a street art fashion--without asking).

Had a really good veggie pita for lunch (finally...some vegetables!). Walked to the Mozart house...this is where he spent the last part of his life...but didn't go in after the disappointment with the last Mozart house I visited, lol. Walked around trying to find a place to eat my sandwich, and finally found a bench in front of St Stephen's.

Then, walked to the Danube river, which--by the way--is NOT blue. It IS a beautiful green color, and is everything you would hope it would be (in my case, surrounded by street art, lol). I took the time to sit and finish my sandwich, then put Ultravox's "Vienna" on my headphones and walked along the bank to Midge Ure singing "oh...Vienna..." Perfect.