Taking it easy in Vienna

As you can tell, if you have been following this Blog, we have been hitting the drink and laughter a little hard and we are just not young any longer so it has caught up with us a bit. So today we took it a bit easy, not eating much and drinking much less as well.

We had a walking tour this morning of the Schonbrunn Palace which was the home of the Hapsburg monarchy here in Vienna. The palace was giving to Maria Theresa by her father and she was the only female ruling monarch here in Austria. I only mention this because she had 16 children, and her youngest daughter was Marie Antoinette.  We found this and other historical facts interesting,

The gardens at the back of this palace were nice to see. The building way in the background of this picture is where the Queen and her husband would have coffee or tea in the mornings.  They would ride there rather than walk which would take about 20 minutes to get there on foot. Imagine that in your backyard.

 

After our tour of the palace we were taken along a ring road that surrounds Vienna to see more historical buildings from our coach. We then had the rest of the afternoon to explore on our own.  Barb and I had a light lunch then found a coffee house for a local treat, iced coffee.  This is espresso, with ice cream and whipped cream and it was really good!

After heading to the bank we decided that is was time to go back to the hotel and rest. We enjoyed our concert tonight, it was very entertaining, good music, singing and dancing and then we walked home through a part near our hotel.  Of course we needed a picture beside the statue of Johann Strauss.

Tomorrow we leave the Euro Zone and head into Eastern Europe and Hungary. We are not sure what the WiFi here will be like so if we are unable to post for a few days don't worry, we will get back online when we can.