Isaac in Hungary: a day in vienna

So, my last 7 AM bus ride was rather painless. It was raining, but we got in soon after 9:50 AM.

There were lots of cool looking large windmills on the way.

First, after getting off, understanding the subway system (and buying a pass), we were off to our hostel. Then we set off to explore.

We went off to St. Stephens, and there was a church service going on, so we decided to come back later. We first went to the Mozarthaus- an apartment in Vienna which Mozart lived in and wrote some of his operas, which has been turned into a musuem. It seems a lot of what they did was replicas- and they were just selling the point of being an attraction- buit it was worthwhile to visit once anyway. They had lots of replicas and suggestions of how his apartment MIGHT have looked like- since no one really knows, and they were showing clips of Amadeus as well.

Mozart's death mask.

The alley way he would have seen.

Then we had a delicious lunch. I had wienerschnitzel, it wasn't that exciting, but it was tasty nonetheless. The Viennese salad was amazing (it has potatoes and cucumbers with vinegar, favorite salad ever!)

We then went to the cathedral, climbing the tower. There were some great views of the roof.

We continued to wander, passing the opera house. Vienna has lots of statues- like the following.

Then we ran into the very interesting WWII memorial. This is where a building was bombed, and hundreds of people were trapped- and died, under the wreckage.

It took us a while to figure out what it was.

We ran into a Mozart statue.

It was raining really hard, and we passed by the Tutankhamun exhibit. We decided to go in. This was really worthwhile- we saw lots of amazing treasures of the tomb, including Scarab jewelery, statues of Anubis, and such. A lot of it was in German, but most of it had English plaques as well describing what stuff was. Unfortunately- pictures were not permitted, so all I have is my memories. Some of the coolest things were when they had the pictures that Howard Carter took lining on the wall, and the same artifacts were sitting in the cases. I hoped I wouldn't get cursed!

Then we walked some more and ran into the below.