My hosts showed us alot of Vienna. The first place we visited was Schönbrunn Palace.
We had a long walk in the park there and even went up a little hill to the point of view "Gloriette" from where we had a wonderful view over the city.
And imagine, we even visited the zoo there!! Have a look whom I met there!!
My hosts also did alot of sight-seeing with me. So one day we went to the city centre and had a looong walk there. We passed by the City hall...,
... the Austian parliament
and the old imperial theatre.
We played hide-and-seek in the park in front of the Museum of historical arts.
We watched these beautiful horses with their carbages (they are called "Fiaker" I was told) in front of Hofburg. Hofburg was the residence of the Habsburg family and it hosts some museums, the Austrian National library and the President's office nowadays.
We also visited this wonderful and very colourful house created by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. There is nothing special inside - just normal flats I was told. Wouldn't it be great to live there? All the citizens have the right to create the surroundings of their windows just as they like - but only as far as they can reach with their arms. Interesting, isn't it?
One day my host announced that we'd go to the countryside for a weekend! How exciting, isn't it? So we all packed our stuff and went to Upper Austria where my host's parents live. We had a wonderful and exciting time there!We went up a little mountain from where we had a wonderful view to lake "Traunsee" and all the other mountains around. And the grass was very tasty there, yummy !!
Then we went to visit "Schloss Orth". It consists of 2 parts: The "normal" castle
and a water castle. Yes, imagine they have a castle here situated on a little island within the lake! Very astonishing, isn't it?
On the next day we went to another lake, "Attersee", also a very beautiful one. I wanted to have a little bath there but it was simply too cold. In Austria you can't go swimming outdoors anymore at this time of the year... But we went by boat - and that was funny, too!!
We also saw something else very exciting! We first saw it quite far away....
.... but then it came closer and closer.
y< And finally it landed!!!
Unfortunately after we came back from Upper Austria Éireannach and Tanusha had to leave us and continue their journey. But another Toyvoyager arrived, Decker, a lille lion from UK. Travelling is sooo much fun and it's great to meet other voyagers and find friends from all over the world!
Last weekend on Saturday there was the perfect autumn day so my hosts thought it would be nice to go to the woods and search for mushrooms there. They were not difficult to find, but unfortunately the first one was poisonous...
...and another one...
but finally we were successful!!! Eireannach and I were soooo proud of ourselves!
We also did some more sightseing here in Vienna, so one day we visited the famous Giant Wheel.
And then we had a look at Danube tower. We wanted to go up but since it was very windy we were a bit affraid and we decided not to do it.
You know that I'm staying at a big family and of course they need to do alot of shopping. I helped a bit and I was very curious to see all the milk products they have here...
The weather didn't get much better since we tried to visit Danube tower. Since the kids already got a bit bored from staying indoors all the time we went to Vienna's technical museum with them. It was interesting to see all these engines, satellites, aeroplanes etc. I even was allowed to push some buttons and to do some little experiments. That was funny!!
Well, I stayed in Austria for a while but now I have to continue my trip. I had a great time here but I'm also looking forward to my further adventures.Good bye, Vienna!
