We had a hard time waking up very early after the blast last night, and caught the train from Salzburg to Vienna.
Once we reached Vienna, WY & AY went to check-in in to the Wombat’s hostel just walking distance from the main train station as they couldn’t find a host in Vienna and me & Jackie ‘tumpang’ our luggage there first. We planned to visit our host only in the evening.
Alright, half a day left, we decided to take tram No.1 or No.2 to circle around the Vienna city as suggested by those tourist handouts.
Well, it turned out to be not-too-interesting =.= hehe…well, at least we got to rest inside the tram for 1 hour. >.<
We got off the tram near the shopping street and went into the Swarovski shop since most of us planned to get something inside for our mommies!!! :D
Well, I got a necklace with a swan pendant!!! At 70euro >.< !!! Hope my mom loves it! One reminder here, crystal cannot get in touch with water as it will loose its shininess as I was told by the sales girl in the shop; no wonder the crystals I bought as gifts in Prague last year all lost its shininess according to the feedbacks I got, they must have wet the crystals!!!
As it was getting late, we went back to Wombat’s hostel, grabbed our luggage and headed to the meeting point where Martin, our host was waiting.
Martin was a very NICE host! He shared this exotic apartment with another 4 more people but apparently the rest were back home to celebrate New Year it seemed. This apartment located in a 100year old building, how cool was that?!?!
Martin’s brother happened to drop by for a visit that night too, and 3 of us went to have a beer and chilled out, it was a pleasant night. (his brother’s name was Wolfgang! Cool right?!?!?)
Day9
The next morning, Martin was kind enough to prepare us breakfast!!! I had a local Vienna home breakfast!!! NICE!!! Martin told me they are not used to having ‘warm’ breakfast, as in mainly bread etc, unlike us Chinese, in contrast, have noodles, dimsum etc served warm!
Alright, a long day started! We went to the hostel and met up with WY & AY and headed to our first destination – the Schönbrunn Palace!
We Q-ed up for almost one hour to get in there!
There was an audio-guide provided hence it was an informative and interesting tour.
We were not supposed to take photos inside, but rules are meant to be broken >.<
Next, we rushed to another tourist attractions, the KunstHaus Wien & Hundertwasser Haus.
KunstHaus Wien 
Hundertwasser Haus
I love these 2 places, the buildings are so catchy!!! The shops inside sell really really cool and artistic and abstractive stuffs which I love tones!!!
There was even a world famous toilet of art! :D (we were supposed to pay to enter the toilet, but we didn't!!! and we squeezed all the way inside via the autogate, woohoo~)
(and a opera toilet at the subway station next to the national opera theatre >.< )Lastly, we rushed (yes, we had to keep the time checked!) to our final destination – the opera and orchestra theatre! Meanwhile, we dropped by the Vienna prater to have a photo session!
we called it the Vienna eye >.<
The opera theatre
The orchestra theatreUnfortunately, the orchestra theatre was having a private show that night, hence we went to the opera theatre instead and a ballet show – “The Nutcracker” was playing that night! Yes!
We managed to get standing tickets at just 3 euros!!! (yes, literally, u have to stand, at the top level gallery, behind all the seats, yet you still can get a pretty good view of the show. Personally, I was satisfied, otherwise u have to pay 10times more to watch it! Another interesting point I noticed there, that you can mark your place! Yes, if you arrived earlier, you can tie your scarf around the railings infront of u, and u booked a standing place!!! Fantastic! :P)
After the show, we went back to Martin’s place and cooked him a dinner! He happily invited his gf and 2 more friends to come over and enjoy the feast! He was delighted.
Well, we had a nice chat and some drinks, then it was time to do some packing as tomorrow we’ll catch the ICE (intercity express) train back to Frankfurt from where we will fly back to Ukraine, marking the end of THIS Europe trip .
P/S: we went back to Carsten place for the last night, and to my surprise, he had a new bed!!! For the couch surfers!!! :D and I was the lucky one to conduct the opening ceremony >.<
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I miss Slazburg more than Vienna!!
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