Huh, Huh... You Said ´´Wiener Schnitzel``
Greetings from Vienna, Austria! Since our last post we have visited the watery town of Venice, which was very nice- even with all of the crowds. Our first day there we got lost, which is very easy to do, and had a great picnic in a quiet little residential square. Then we hit the museums on the island- The Correr and Archaeological Museums and the Doge´s Palace. Pretty cool and with tons of gold- no surprise there. The Piazza San Marco is a mad house with equal parts insane tourist and pigeon. Although we aren´t sure who has the higher IQ- the pigeons geting a free meal at the expense of hundreds tourists paying a euro per bag of feed or the tourists letting the filthy things land all over them. Oh, wait! I guess the pigeons win!! ...Or is it the pigeon feed vendors?? We may never know.
The next day we slept in (we had AC, so it was actually cooler in the room than outside) and then headed out for a tour of the Grand Canal on a tronchetto. Then we headed out to the island of Murano to look at the famous glass they make. That was a lot of fun, we got to see a demonstration where they made a leetle glass ´orse (for effect say it in a cheesy Italian accent). After that we headed back to Venice and tried to see San Marco´s Basilica. Jesse couldn´t get in with the backpack (funny how they don´t tell you that you can´t bring in a bag until you are at the head of the line) so he waited outside since it was about to close and the line was still really long. I went in and looked really quick, it wasn´t as good as some of the other cathedrals we have seen. It was very dark and dirty. The only neat thing about it was the mosaic murals covering the whole ceiling. Oh, yeah- it was all gold tiles, no surprise there!
Last night we caught a night train to Vienna and had to share a compartment with 4 other people. Luckily they were really fun and interesting to talk to. We were with two Brits, an Austrian, and a guy from Holland. We stayed up most of the night talking about politics, they sure do love Michael Moore. Anyways, they were a fun group to be cooped up with for 12 hours, even if the air conditioning didn´t work. Thankfully, they weren´t any of the stereotypical smelly Europeans. We arrived in Vienna early this morining and found a neat little hostel near the train station. We crashed for a while since we didn´t get much sleep on the train, then headed out to see the sites. So far Vienna is a very clean and laid back city, much better than some of the others we have been to. Tomorrow we are heading out to explore more of the city and then we are moving on to Hallstatt and Salzburg.
We hope that things are going great back home, we are very much looking forward to coming back and enjoying the AC! Remember to keep writing us emails at our address or leaving us little notes here on the blog. We love to hear from you all!!
Meghan and JeSSe
posted by Meghan @ 3:07 PM
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