So I went on a weekend trip to Vienna, Austria a little bit ago and just wanted to share a little bit about the trip :) It was only a two hour bus ride from Brno, and cost maybe 14 Euro (less than $20) for a round trip ticket. We used the Student Agency for the bus, which actually works out pretty well! You can reserve tickets online, then pick them up from the Student Agency office located right in the main center of Brno. Here's a link to their website (in English):
http://www.studentagency.eu/
They are a great option for buses to Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, and many other places, so check them out if you are looking to travel around Europe! Anyway, we took a very early bus and arrived at dawn in Vienna. Basically we decided to look around a bit, get some breakfast, and find a nice park and sleep for a few hours since we pulled an all-nighter to get onto our bus. We then spent the entire day exploring and looking around the main areas of the city. And it was GORGEOUS!! Probably one of the nicest large cities I have ever been to. Here are a few pics of what we saw our first day:
There were so many places and gigantic palaces, I was not able to keep them all straight! It was amazingly beautiful though.
The Underground was actually extremely convenient and easy to use. We didn't really pay for any tickets.... Which makes me feel kind of guilty but we were just there for two days.... and the routes went all over the city making it very easy and convenient to go from place to place.
Our hostel was Hostel Hutteldorf, located in the Vienna suburb of Hutteldorf. It was also a pretty nice hostel, and very large! At least compared to the ones I had stayed in on previous trips to Europe. It was definitely a young person's hostel, and we actually met another guy from America that was just on a 6 month "travel-around-the-world" tour and who seemed pretty cool. Here's a link to the Hostel, if anyone would like to check it out :)
http://www.hostel.at/en/hostel-hutteldorf/
That night, we all went out to eat at this little local restaurant (I can't remember the name of it) next to Hostel Hutteldorf. I had one of the BEST meals I've ever had in my life.... It was schnitzel with bacon and a bunch of other stuff on it, doused in some amazing sauce I've never had before. We had some delicious local brew beer and I had chocolate cake and ice cream for dessert. SOO GOOD!!! I wish I had taken a couple pics of our meals. Then, later that night, we went to a place called "Museum's Quarter" which is this center with a couple gigantic museums, but turns into basically a gigantic party at night. We had a great time there, and eventually made it back to our hostel!
The next day was the second day of sight-seeing in Vienna. Our bus left that night at 8:00pm, so we wanted to check out as much stuff as we possibly could. We saw a lot, including the gorgeous Schonbrunn Palace, the Rathaus, and some huge "Sports Festival" in the center of the Royal Apartments. Here are a few pics of our sights we saw the second day:
It was quite the successful trip!! While I showed several pics of our adventures, there are still many, many more. Vienna is such a huge city... It is almost as if you run into a gigantic and impressive building everywhere you turn. An amazing time, without question! We made it back to our bus and back to Brno by that night.
Well, that's all for now! Next, I'll post a quick blog with a few pics about my day trip to the Capital of Slovakia: Bratislava :)
Cheers! (or, in Czech... Na zdravi!)
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