Hello Friends, thanks for reading and showing some interest in my Europe experience. So lets talk...the weekend. It began easily enough on Saturday morning, I allowed myself to stay around the hotel room for a little while because you just cant be doing something all of the time for several straight weeks. Unless you have children, and we all know, I dont. Let's begin after I got off the Metro at Karlsplatz.
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| Natural History Museum |
I wanted to check out the open market in Vienna after Reinhard pointed it out to me while we passed by the previous Saturday. It goes on for a mile or so I would say and has pretty much everything you could imagine. There were little restaurants, vendors selling everything from nuts to fish to old books. I thought I would pick up a few things to take or send back to the US, but i didnt, I purchased 200g of Almonds for three Euro. So I moved forward and decided to stroll through the museum quarter on my way to the next metro station, the architecture is amazing and I really wanted to go in a few, but the weather was amazing, and I wasnt going to spend the day inside. So I took a few pictures and moved along to my impromptu Saturday excursion.
There are a few hills in Dobling on the northwest side of Vienna, some would probably call them mountains. They are actually the base of the alps, but they are a little bit more of the Smoky lineage, not Rocky. So you get the point. Its noticeable from the Danube that there are small buildings on the peaks and vineyards on the ascent. Obviously, Metro doesn't run there, but I needed to get there. I figured it out while eating lunch that it would only take a couple of train switches and a bus. Then it was up to me, just go.
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| Weingut Cobenzl Vineyards |
Bus 38A was leaving the station and I was one of the last ones on it. It was cramped with old people, so I knew I was going to a safe location with probably a few sights. Good sign! We travel through the little area known as Grinzing and we are heading up. I got off the bus at a village near the peak. I dont recall the name, but there were vineyards and nature everywhere. Very nice place, I walked for an hour or so and found a little restaurant called Oktogon, I didnt do anything there, but its a reference point. I notice there was still a little more to the hill so I ventured (by bus) up to Kahlenberg. I stopped at very hip restaurant there that overlooked Vienna. There really wasnt much left to do other than look at Vienna, smile, and recognize my luck for being afforded the opportunity to do this....
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| The view from the restaurant at Kahlenberg |
