Vienna, I Love You! Traveling Expands the Heart and Head!

We are in Vienna, Austria, and it’s been lovely at first sight. For someone who loves museums, ancient ruins, classical music, and gardens filled with flowers and statues, Vienna has it all! We are feeling our age, unable to see everything here to see. We are being selective, and it is like being in a smorgasbord and not knowing where to start. There are so many museums that we would need years to see it all. We saw the monument to Goethe as we looked for the tourist information office. Monuments abound to kings, queens, generals, and all manner of people.

As usual, we rented accommodations outside the downtown area, for price but also to eat and walk among locals. Admittedly, people stare at me, but I learned that out of 9 million people in Austria, with about 2 million in Vienna, only 40,000 blacks are among them. But, people have been kind to Douglas and me, and I love the senior discounts here on transportation and museums. I am not trying to be young! We take the trams or trains wherever we go.

It is harder here because while English translations are in some museums, in others, it is German all the way. I have no idea what we bought at the store, but if it had the picture of a pig, I assumed it was pork, and if a cow, then maybe it’s beef. It is so hard when you speak not one word of the language, and I have new respect for immigrants to America.

The weather is brisk and. It rained today. I wish I had brought all jeans, because capris don’t cut it. I also brought summer gowns, and we have found every blanket in the place to keep warm at night. Here are some pictures from our first days here.

We basically learned how to get around on the first day, and then. I had to take a day from sightseeing because I got sick from some type of spicy food here. But, I am back and ready to enjoy myself. Sometimes, you lose a couple of days. Thankfully, when I left my jacket on the plane, Douglas went back for it and got locked in a jetway. Thankfully, they finally found someone with a key to free him! Traveling is fun because it’s so unpredictable.