Part 2 of Vienna days

Back for the second part of Vienna adventures. So, in Vienna for the first time we had booked an Airbnb apartment where we stayed at other people’s house, instead of our usual way of having the whole apartment for ourselves. This experiment worked out well as our hosts were really welcoming and communicated well in English. Hopefully this encourages us to stay at other people’s places too in the future as it is cheaper. Anyway, on with the show.

Vienna is positioned on the shores of the Danube river and we wanted to go check it out. The city centre is a few kilometres from the river, so there weren’t too many sights to visit, but we did find one cool church and a café by the river to have our morning coffee and juice. The church was massive and impressive from the outside. One little detail that I enjoyed was that the church had a large mural, which included Jesus, angels and all the usual churchy stuff, but in the bottom corner of the painting was picture of the church.

It was a cloudy day by the river. On the other side some more modern buildings

Big ol church

Bottom left you can see a picture of the church

This church was a lot larger and had more mass than others usually

Some coffee to kick start the day

From there we headed to a carnival area called Prater. It was a rather cloudy day, but still fun to roam the streets and check the carnival rides. We did ride one roller coaster and the main Ferris Wheel, Riesenrad. From the wheel we got a nice view of Vienna even though it started to rain during our spin. Still an enjoyable place, and little different to the usual museums and old buildings formula that we often do. 

Some sights from the carnival grounds

Before the Riesenrad ride there was an exhibition on history of Vienna.

War times

View of the carnival from the air

Nice selection of hot chocolates

Since it started to rain, we headed for some hot chocolate at one of the fancy coffee houses in Vienna. It was nice and Anne’s hot chocolate had some Pistachio sauce on it and that made it really nice. After that we slowly made our way to some dinner. We had booked a table at a Mexican place for a full dinner to celebrate Friday. I’m a huge fanatic of Mexican food so nachos, fajitas, churros and tequila were riiight up my alley. After that a slow walk back to the apartment while admiring Vienna in the darkening night.

A tequila or two for Friday

Always nice to end on some churros