Vienna was, tied with Paris, my favorite. The Hapsburgs made the city one of the most epic and extravagant and historical places on earth. Vienna seriously has everything: ridiculously awesome performing arts what with Mozart and the Vienna Opera and the Vienna boy choir (seriously though… they’re the best in the world), the Hapsburg palace complex is amazing and we spent a long time going around the gardens and museums, the treasury makes the crown jewels of London feel outclassed and underdressed and Vienna has a spectacular museum (second in my mind only to the Musée D’Orsay and Pompidou Center in Paris).
Neo-gothic town hall. Not a big fan, but everyone else was.
View of garden from museum.
There was a really awesome cathedral there (of course) with even more spectacular catacombs with mass graves of hundreds and hundreds of people that died from the plague! Rachel and I climbed the South Tower which was the most ridiculous stair mastering exercise I can remember.
Don't know why I don't have a better photo...
Great view from up top.
We saw The Magic Flute in the Vienna Opera and everything (the production, cast, set, orchestra) was absolutely spectacular (thank God for those electronic translators next to every seat)! There’s a bunch of other stuff (sight-seeing, etc., but you get the idea), but I really, really want to come back to Vienna (esp. during the summer when all the gardens are even more amazing and you can swim in the Danube)!
Opera House
Inside. I dunno.
Garden in front of all that castle business
Imitating these female Japanese tourists we just saw doing the same thing... sorry, tasteless, but it was just too good.
Neo-gothic town hall. Not a big fan, but everyone else was.
View of garden from museum.
Don't know why I don't have a better photo...
Great view from up top.
Opera House
Inside. I dunno.
