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| Michaelertor in the city centre |
13.01.2012 – Friday, day 25
Today we jumped on board a couple of guided tours, the first through Vienna woods where we visited an old underground mine used as a prison and aeroplane factory during the first world war. We walked down a 500 meter narrow corridor that looked like something out of Charlie and the chocolate factory… you know the one I mean where it gets smaller and smaller as you go further so by the end you’re almost squatting to get through the door. Na, it wasn’t that bad, but we did have to duck our heads most of the way.
Despite being so far down, the air quality was amazing and it was a constant 9 degrees (6 degrees warmer than outside!). We went on a boat ride through the flooded lower level, which was also used in the movie The Three Musketeers.
On our way back from the woods, it started sleeting and by the time we swapped buses to start our city tour at 2pm it was snowing very heavily! It was beautiful to watch for the first time ever, but it kinda ruined our view of most of the city because we couldn’t see out the windows very well. It got down to 2 degrees so they cranked up the heater on the bus and we drove around town for about 90 minutes.. I don’t remember much because all those lovely things (heating, comfy chair, peaceful cruise) are all ingredients for sleep! So off I drifted until we got to our final destination, the Palace where we froze and mucked about in the beautiful gardens and then visited about 10 of over 1,000 rooms.
From the little bit that we managed to see, Vienna is beautiful and has some amazing history much like a lot of the places we have been to. It’s a shame that we didn’t have longer to appreciate it here, but we have enjoyed a couple of traditional Venetian meals, seen the countryside and the most important city sites; so can’t complain really.
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