Vienna - Still alive with the Sound of Music

As you may have noticed, the blogs have become fewer. I thought I should post one just so anyone actually keeping up to date with this knows I am still alive and kickin! My excuse for lack of updates, internet is extremely expensive here, and I guess we're just having too much fun to pay for communication!

On to Vienna! We arrived in Austria not knowing much about the country other than what we learned from the educational movie, Sound of Music, the Betoven lives upstairs soundtrackm and Arnold Schwarzenagger. On arriving we found that although the city is full of beautiful music and culture, there aren't many people yodelling in the fields and in fact, most Viennese hadn't even heard of the Sound of Music movie. As my sister had friends in Vienna we did meet a fair amount of Viennese people and found that they really are cultured and fun.

Some highlights,
Sitting in a gourmet Viennese coffee shop, famous for the many artists and writers that spend their days on that very terrace, watching the tourists flock by with their Lonely Planets. I wonder if we also look that funny.

Wandering museums quarter full of big and beautiful buildings, (only a little tired of looking at buildings) and finding a cool artsy hangout in the middle of it complete with a DJ and drinks.

The Schonberg palace was beautiful with most unusual oriental art addorning the whole thing but the best part was the maze in the back garden, that also included interesting games, water dodging, math sqares etc. Very challenging and fun to let the inner child/geek out.

The nightlife. Our hostel had a great bar that was hopping every night and the local bars were fun too with quiz nights and bizarre people to meet at every turn.

We visited a local winery where we could drink fresh wine by the half litre out of mugs for only 3 bucks each. Not only that but we were serenaded by a violin and an accordian playing, My Favourite Things. Getting there in the pouring rain and lightning was a bit of an adventure as was finding our way home after all the wine, but totally worth it.