The first day in Vienna
Visiting the city center of Vienna
10.02.2007 5 °C
Today, the weather was not so good.
My honey always likes driving fast, so, only 1.5 hours, we had already arrived Vienna.
Eurostar Hotel, a 4-star hotel, but when we entered the room, hmm...i was a little disappointed, because it was not a nice one as what i imagined, also was not as good as the same star hotel in china, contrary, it looked like a small inn. Besides, there were double windows in our room, so that it was too hot inside, the air was not enough fresh, but if we opened the window, it would be very noisy, and almost could not sleep well, too bad! However, the breakfast in this hotel was not bad, we were all satisfied with it.
Wienerwald, it means "Vienna forest", it is one of the popular restaurants in Austria, and the chicken is reputed to be best food in this restaurant. My honey and I all like it so much, really very delicious!
Except for the chicken, the white beer was also not bad, but unfortunately, i could not drink too much, because my face was very easy to get red!
After eating, we began to take a sightseeing in the city center.
This is Burg Theater (main theatre)...
The Rathaus (town hall)...
At Parlament, the buildings and arts are all very beautiful...
At the other side of the road, we can see many carriages back and forth. But it is very expensive, about 90 Euro per hour...
It is not only a big park, but also is an very special place. Because the right half part of the buildings are the working place of Austrian President, and the left part is Sisi museum.
When i took the picture with this naked man statuary, my honey was a little jealous, haha...
This is Sisi museum shop, many different souvenirs about Sisi and Franz were selling there...
In the museum, actually taking pictures is forbidden, but still can find some people taking without the flash, even though inside there is not enough bright. My honey also tried taking some pictures, but most of them were too blur, so pity!
This is Franz's picture when he was old. There are not many picutres of young Franz, and he also is not as handsome as the one in the famous SISI movie, especially his mustache, so ugly!
But contrary, there are not many pictures of old Sisi, maybe because she is a woman, and want to make her keep young and beautiful in all the people's mind. But it was pity that Sisi's teeth were very ugly, so all of her pictures, she always closed her mouth tightly, not like the Sisi in the movie, had so sweet smile.
This is national library. Here taking pictures is allowed, but still can not use the flash, and the worse thing is inside too dark, so the quality of the pictures is not good!
This is a small square behind Sisi museum.
Not far from the big palace in the inner city there is a rather expensive shopping area.
Esterhazykeller, it is an old restraurant, has more than one hundred years history, and it locates in the deep underground.
The white wine mixing with the water, tasting not bad, also can make my face not get red so quick, haha...
Posted by R and K 14:04 Archived in Austria Tagged tourist_sites