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What We Had
Highs: 69°F-71°F
Lows: 47°F-56°F
Great weather...too many smokers
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Averages:
Hi 67°F
Low 50°F
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| |  | | | Melk Abby | | On our way to Vienna, we stopped by the Melk Abbey (yup...in Melk). By way of introduction here`s some info from Wikipedia (the link for the full page is below):
Melk Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley. The abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and the remains of several members of the House of Babenberg, Austria`s first ruling dynasty.
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| | | | Chris` Pics at Melk Abbey | | A bunch of great shots Chris took in and around the Abbey. Be sure to click the More Pictures button below to see all of Chris` pics at the Abbey.
 | Stephanie in the Blue Room
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 | Melk Church
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 | The town of Melk
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| | | | Schloss Schoenbrunn | | | Schloss Schoenbrunn (Schoenbrunn Palace) is located in Hietzing the 13 municipal district of Vienna. From the website:
At the end of the seventeenth century Emperor Leopold I commissioned the Baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who had received his training in Rome, to design an imperial hunting lodge for his son, Crown Prince Joseph, later to become Emperor Joseph I. Replacing the château de plaisance built on this site for the dowager empress Eleonora of Gonzaga in 1642, it was to grow into a palatial imperial residence over the course of the eighteenth century.
So basically the Palace was originally a summer get-a-way for the prince. Tough life!
Anyways it's beautiful! The grounds are enormous and manicured to perfection (as you can see from the pictures. We didn't spend a lot of time here (we stopped on our way into Vienna). It's definitely worth a visit and be sure to allow enough time to see both the Palace and the gardens. You can probably make this one a day long stop.
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Vienna 1130
Tel: +43 1 811 13-0
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| | | | Chris` pics | | Chris Lee took a lot of really great pictures. Here are a group for Vienna. There's only room for nine pictures here. Be sure to click on the Pictures button at the bottom of the section to see them all.
 | 1 vote for best legs
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 | Seriously, the dog can`t jump that high
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 | Gelato confusion
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 | Gelato envy
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 | The other tour group
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 | Wolf- They just dont listen
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 | Shouldn`t that say `Herren`
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| | | | St. Stephan`s Cathedral | |
 | St Stephans Cathedral , Vienna
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 | The new and the old
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Stephansplatz 3
1010 Vienna
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| | | | Mozart Haus | |
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Domgasse 5
Vienna 1010
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| | | | Hofburg Palace | | The Hofburg is the official residence and workplace of the President of Austria and was formerly the principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty. It is located in the center of Vienna and was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards.
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Michaelerkuppel
Vienna 1010
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| | | | Vienna Opera House | | The only way that we were going to see the Opera in Vienna was to stand in line for standing ticket (that's standing in the back for the entire performance). That was not going to happen. But we did want to see the Opera House. On the afternoon of the 22nd there was a special tour of the opera house where we got to see the building, the auditorium and (frankly the most interesting part) the stage. No idea that the stage would be as large as it is. Wow. This is a great tour. Highly recommended.
BTW we did see the opera...they have a large display out front that you could watch the performance. It's in the final two pictures below.
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Opernring 2
1010 Vienna
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| |  | | | Brezlgwölb Cafe Restaurant Wien | |
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Ledererhof 9
Ledererhof 9, 1010 Wien, Austria
Tel: +43 1 5338811
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| | | | Palmenhaus Cafe | | This is a great place to eat. The food was good and the location (adjacent to Burggarten) is outstanding.
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Burggarten 1
1010 Vienna
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| | | | Gasthaus Reinthaler | | The food was good but the no-smoking section WASN'T
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Stuwerstraße 5
1020 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 7268282
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| | | | Cafe Diglas | |
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Wollzeile 10
1010 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 5125765
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| |  | | | Hoel Schweizerhof | |
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1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 5331931
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