#vienna2014

My first thoughts upon entering Vienna?  HUGE.  Beyond grand.  Rich. Beautiful.

For me, everything in Vienna was huge.  I don't think I saw one building that was "regular size".  Everything is just monstrous.  Let me give you an example, we used our GPS to get around town, etc.  Our GPS had problems because the buildings were so big, we had issues reaching the satellite, I think.  Seriously, buildings in Vienna are that big.

We walked everywhere.  We walked miles.  We went into various churches and buildings and I do remember going into the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, which is beautiful and grand.  It reminded me so much of Tarra and I know she would want to attend that school.  Lots of beautiful horses on display, costumes, etc.  Here is a link of a show taking place in the building:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_QlKdNrzAU (we didn't see this show).

Many of the buildings had canopies of flowers on them.  So beautiful.  Miles and miles of walking.  By the time we sat down to dinner, my feet were killing me but, in a bizarre way, I love the feeling.  It means we had a healthy walk (almost like a solid hike).  We walked around and found this random place for dinner and it was not good.  Like, really bad food.  I think this was the first time in Europe that we couldn't finish the food.  I had some seafood soup concoction and Eric had some nasty looking burrito.  Bad choice for us.  Food is expensive, too (Vienna is very expensive).

HM Queen Letizia will attend the opening of the Diego Velázquez exhibition at the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna on the 27th of October. [x]