market day

Today we ventured out to the Naschmarkt where we saw all sorts of fresh foods - vegetables, breads, fish, meat, grains.... and on and on... at the end was a flea market, that looked pretty much like every big flea market I've been to... a bunch of junk that no one wants hahaha. I guess that is universal. We found a great little place to eat though where I indulged in some Goulash that was really delicious, then walked across to another place and split an apple strudel and some sort of other amazing dessert.

We walked up the through the Karlsplatz again, which seems to have been the main landing point for us all week. It's the center of town basically.

The Kärntner Ring area has tons of shops, where we got a few things to take home. We kept walking and found ourselves in the Stephansplatz. There is a huge church there, and tons of street performers. We were surprised to happen upon some Indian dancers (feathers, not dots hehe). I purchased some watercolors from an artist who was set up in the square - I love her work! Closer to the church, a group of guys were breakdancing and had a huge crowd formed around them. They were really incredible! I took tons of photos.

The church, Stephansdom, is one of the tallest in the World. I think my favorite part of the Gothic church were the gargoyles - they were crazy looking dogs leaping off the building with crazed looks on their faces.

Afterwards, we took the train back to our hotel's stop, got some things at the grocery store (wine, some snacks) and came back to the hotel to figure out how to pack our bags again, with our goodies that we bought. I'm working on uploading photos and writing the blog in the lobby of the hotel right now. I'm worn out and ready to come home. We are going to try to take it easy tonight and get to sleep early (hopefully). We have to leave the hotel by 7am tomorrow, so we have plenty of time to get to the airport for our flight at 11:55am. (It'll take about 45 minutes or so to get to the airport.. and we have no idea what customs will be like here, or crowds. Tomorrow is going to be another near-24 hours of travel. We land in Atlanta at about 530pm EST, then get to Dallas/Fort Worth at 9:15pm CST... which will be the equivilant to 4:15am Vienna time. I'll then have a 30-45 minute drive back to the house, after driving Romy home. Whew.

I'm doing NOTHING on Monday!


This trip has been incredible. Thank you TCU for letting me come here!