Vienna

I have successfully made it to Vienna, Austria, the first stop on my Epic European Adventure. I left Tuebingen last night at nine-thirty and got to Vienna at six-forty this morning. I found my hostel without any problems, it is really close to the train station, not so close to the city centre. After I dropped my backpack off I went in search of some breakfast. Austria is still very German in the sense that not much was open on a Sunday morning.

After breakfast I attempted to find a mass to go to since it is Palm Sunday. After finding three separate masses, all of which were ending as I got to them, I gave up and headed into the city center.

I did a lot of walking around and investigating the area. I took a tour of the Spanish Riding School, where they have the Lipizzaner horses. It was pretty nifty.

Tomorrows agenda is to visit the Museum Quarter and hopefully Demel, a bakery my father kindly informed me of. Tuesday I would like to go to one of the castles that has some pretty fantastic gardens. Somewhere in there I need to go to the Mozart Statue as well so that I can get a picture in front of it for my mom. So much to do, so little time.

My hostel rocks. The location is very convenient for the train station and it is very clean and quite a cool place. Hopefully all of them are like this.