Vienna updated

Property
#2037526
Unit
City Loft – Nice loft rental, near Schönbrunn
Reservation ID
HA-NV5LTL
Dates
Jul 27 - Aug 1, 2016, 5 nights
Guests
2 adults, 0 children
Owner name
Sandra
Hi Rosemary!

Coming from Munich you will probably be able to get out at Wien Meidling (one station before Hauptbahnhof). From there you just take underground U6 direction "Floridsdorf" and get out at "Westbahnhof". Then take the subway U3 direction "Ottakring". Stop at station"Johnstraße".
Then keep right, take the exit "Meiselmarkt", move on to the escalator going upstairs. Than turn right again and follow again exit "Meiselmarkt" and the escalator. When you get out, turn left crossing "Johnstraße" directly into "Hütteldorfer Straße". The address is Hütteldorfer Straße 97 (that´s the main entrance where the box with the key is). But the entrance to your flat is around the corner on Nobilegasse (please read my former email). I guess it will take around 15 to 20 minutes.

Best wishes,
Sandra
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Vienna Pass2 day  order referenceVPA9020262
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011T 058695
- [ ] July 28
Began our day at Schunbrunn Palace, with a 40 room Grand Tour then checked our the rose garden, the maze, the Glorietta, carriage museum, and peeked into the Children's Museum. Finished off that stop with the Strudel Show, quite the performance with samples and a recipe to take home and try.


This was on the yellow line of our tour package which we continued to the Hauptbahnhof to reseve our seats on the train to Florence. The direst train was an overnighter but we want to see the countryside so opted for connecting trains in Innsbruck and Verona, getting us there at 6 in the evening instead of 6 in the morning.


Continuing on the yellow line we saw Belvedere, Heeresgeshi htliches Museum and Karlskirche.


From there we transferred to the red line for the old city section. Wow! I see this city as a destination for two weeks for fine art folks. There are more museums than in any other place we know...old art, modern art, opera houses, tributes everywhere to Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Strauss, Schburt, opportunites for concerts any time of the day.
On this route House of Music, spanish Riding School where they train those beautiful lippensteins, Stephansfom, Kaisergruft, MAK, Kursalon etc etc etc.
With a head full of information, we decided on a leisurly cruise on the Danube for 90 minutes. Lovely conclusion to the day.
Home on the underground, grocery shopped at a Halal store and cooked a very nice meal, love their spices!

July 29

U3 to Volkstheater, around corner to Museums Quartier, impressive!!
Hopped on red line to get to blue line and on the ay we passed:

The Volkstheater housing modern readers and actors, the Museum of Natural Science with 30 million items, the largest meteorite collection, gems and minerals
Parliament building built in Greek architecture
BorgTheater while being built, very controversial and before opening, one of the two architects committed suicide, the other died a few days later. Upon opening, thete were so many people in the foyer, an uprising began.
Neo Gothic City Hall, tallest building on the Ringstrasse.
Beethoven Memorial house
Old city wall
Beethoven Memorial sight, here at age 22, wrote all his works here, stayed in 80 apartments, not a good neighbour or rent payer
Sigmund Freud Museum
Schubert's birthplace
Maxmillian's church, to Mexico
Scots square
Porcelain Factory
Army barracks and fortress
Franz Joseph tribute
Soldier monument
Art nouveau building , Otto Wagner
Leopoldstadt, old Jewish district, recent years the size of Jewish population has increased since WWII
Augarten, largest wetland garden, imperial hunting ground
Museum of Crime
Sofitel with the restaurant, le loft
Danube Canal
St Stephan's Cathedral and Catacombs
Mozart House Vienna
Urania
MAX museum of applied arts

It was good to revisit this area and take more in without juggling camera, headphones and map! Lovely loop!

Red line to stop 13, switch to Blue Line for Danube Tower and U N Headquarters, one of four in the world.
En route to the tower the walls built to regulate the river
Fritz Hunterwaser
Madame Tussaud in the Prater, open for public in 1776  by Josep II  it had been hunting grounds , chestnut trees everywhere and a promenade that has the leaves cleaned on a regular basis.
We stopped for a ride on the giant ferris wheel and the lilliputian tram. This part of the big Prater is an amusement park similar to Disney on a smaller scale. The unique ferris wheel has been operating for one hundred years. Our car had 18 people in it with a stop at the top for photo ops of the whole city and area.

Next stop UN building for a one hour tour. This is the third of the UN Centers, after New York and Geneva. Their focus at this site is nuclear, women, drugs and rehab. Nobel Peace prize for that effort in 2005.

Note to self: it was not necessary to buy the two day transit pass as our tours were so close to home. I paid 13.30Euros for a two day pass and we only need short Undergrounds for those two days at a total cost of 8 Euros.

Off on the green line to the country, the wine tour. Very hot this pm so stopped at the City Hall where there is a film fest and an international food fair. Austrian spritzer hit the spot!

Past the thermal bath area.
276 AD first grape vines planted
Grinzing, 12 million glasses of wine produced a year. A lovely village of restaurants and tasting rooms. Destroyed three times over time, twice by the Turks and once by the French. They built a tunnel to the church for protection. Vineyards threatened by urban sprawl so folks bought in to protect those vineyards...Dali Lama, Jimmy Carter, Sophie Lauren, king of Sweden.
Panoramic view, Kahllenberg Hotel with cafe, once an important villa where Beethoven walked uphill 90 minutes to teach his student, a baroness. Highest located church , St Joseph, popular destination for Polish pilgrims.
Museum of contemporary art
Vienna woods then to
Lower Austria, largest province, Vienna smallest
Wine from monastery contributed to the protection of the west
Monastery of Klosternerneuburg the largest and oldest winery in Austria, housing a big  art collection.
Circled back along the Danube, many river book cruises coming into dock.