To celebrate finishing our first term (kill me now, I'm still so exhausted and to punish myself I've been going to work at 5am every.single.day), the roomie and I hopped a flight to Vienna to see the Christmas markets, be festive, and rest.
We did 2 out of 3. (we did not sleep, like, at all)
Molls's has several friends from Cambridge who are studying in Germany this year and as luck would have it, they were in Vienna the same weekend as us! Which was amazing on several levels: 1) They speak German 2) It's so nice to catch up with friends 3) Ruth LIVES in Vienna so we had our own tour guide!! 4) I have new friends!!! It was a win all around.
I have really bad flight juju and our flight was delayed an hour, so, we landed in Vienna late late late and hungry and grumpy so instead of fancy dinner, we did champagne bar and sandwiches. Lesbihonest, it was amazing.
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| With Rosie and Liam, celebrating end of term |
The following morning we met up for a wander and breakfast at a local little shop.
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| I was obsessed with this building! |
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| Austrian breakfast of champions |
The girls had apferstrudel and einspanner, which translates to heaven, and Liam had an omelet, because he is boring.
We then did a tour of several churches real quick, which was amazing because it was Sunday services!!
Ruth took us to all the Christmas markets
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| You know my thoughts on carousels |
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| My people. This was one of the happiest days of my life! |
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| Rosie and Liam modeling their Christmas hats |
Rosie and Liam had to catch flights home, so, Molly and I had a little snack break at the hotel (MOAR FOOD) and then went out to see the city at night.
Gorgeous.
As it was a mild night, and we had no plans, we decided to take a horse drawn carriage ride. As one does at Christmas. Now, remember that we don't speak German. So when we booked, we were told we'd have an English speaking guy. Notsomuch.
But, it all worked out.
After about 20 minutes of our ride, we were going through a park when the driver starts speaking to a man walking beside us. Before we know it, he's in the cab of the carriage and translating for us, because he, the attractive random stranger, speaks German, and English.
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| See, I'm not lying!! |
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| Blurry markets |
He's actually French. And took us for coffee afterwards. I'm trying to arrange a marriage between he and Molly, because, I mean, COME ON.
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| Everyone say hiiiii to Augustin. Our new bestie. |
Then we had dinner and drinks with he and his roommates the following night and we're all (hopefully) going to one of the famous wintertime balls in Vienna. Which is basically an excuse for me to get all dressed up and pretend to be Maria dancing with Captain Von Trapp. Duh.
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| Augustin is too cool for pictures |
I mean, what the heck?!
We had Turkish coffee to warm up.
I laughed at basically everything, because I am a child.
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| Wiener. Heehee. |
We saw Klimt's The Kiss.
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| Yeah, so, it's not a picture of The Kiss because that's 17 different kinds of wrong, but, this is the Belvedere, where the painting is. |
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| more Belvedere |
We ate Greek food in Vienna.
We learned how to kind of get around on the subway.
We laughed a lot.
We had, basically, the best Christmas ever.
I love Vienna.
Oh. And, in case you were wondering, I did run around singing The Sound of Music. I know it takes place in Salzburg, NOT. THE. POINT.
2 comments:
Wow, Vienna looks so gorgeous! I just heard about the theater roof collapse in London and thought of you immediately. Hope you are ok!
Oh my God... I MUST GO THERE!
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