10 Things About Vienna

1. Pedestrians will wait for the green light to cross the street even if there are no cars coming.

2. The sun does not exist in Vienna

3. Bars? What bars?

4.there are 1000 museums but nothing to see. And each one has a separate entrance fee.

5.the trams. If you are trying to figure out which one to get on you are most likely going to get run over by another from behind you.

6. There is every store known to man in Vienna including upwards of 8 H&Ms, gucci, handmade soap stores, chocolates and pastries galore but no where to buy a damn beer stein.

7. Don't even try to navigate with a map. All the roads change names every other block and trying to pronounce the names is like trying to talk with novicane in your mouth.

8. Now unlike Italians, the people of Vienna understand the need to eat a meal for breakfast. A good portion of the population may not take part in this activity but some of them do and there are restaurants that serve eggs. Wow! And get this they are refrigerated. But here is the kicker. For three people to eat a normal breakfast you can't spend less than 50euros. That is upsurd. They have KFCs in the city they need to learn what a Denny's is or a waffle house for that matter. they give you a basket with croissants big pretzels and sometimes rolls. Each of these are 2 euros each. They should have a little price tag that says you are an idiot for eating this but its so freakin delicious you gonna have another, thanks for the 4 euros dumbass see ya tomorrow.

9. All throughout Austria and I guess Europe for that matter everyone and their uncle smokes. Not that big of a deal. But in Vienna when they waiter lights a cigarette in the restaurant between serving tables you know there is a problem with these people.

10. The only church that anyone may know of or have seen a picture of is Karlskirche. It could be a very pretty church however they had to put scaffolding through out the interior to support the elevator and staircase to the top of the inside of the dome. I don't really think the architect planed on people to be standing at the top of his dome just to get a bad view of the city through dirty glass. Menwhile your standing of scaffolding that is rocking back and forth cause it is 70meters high. So what could have been the only nice thing to us in Vienna was ruined by the desire to make money off of dumb tourists.

This list actually really deserves one more addition.

11. The biggest problem with the city of Vienna is...its to damn big. With four or five major train stations, one large airport that has hotels a convention center and god knows what else in it. You could spend days in it and good thing cause we spent six hours in front of one of the many Starbucks.
There are somewhere around five or six grand palaces through out the city. All with gardens that were built to be bigger than the one before it. I think there are two major rings around the city that are mainly for cars, buses, trams, taxis, horse and carriages and if they are not killed by one of the above even pedestrians. Through out the city there are quite a few pedestrian streets around the big churches and such. They each look like fifth Ave. Lined with a thousand over priced stores. And there isn't just one of these streets. There has to be at least 9 of them. All with the same exact stores.
On the outskirts of the "inner city" are all the creepy old red light districts. With the abandoned buildings and sketchy allies. Right where our hostel was located. But it was near the train station so its al okay.
The size of the city definitely is a deterent when trying to determine where to go and what to see. If your not going to hop on a tour bus provided you can figure out where they leave from your prett much screwed. I wouldn't recommend walking cause you could do that for hours and see nothing of interest.

In conclusion, Austria is beautiful I don't know what happened to Vienna. Salzburg was absolutely great. Beautiful streets to walk down. Plently of restaurants to keep your stomach full without emptying your wallet. There are just enough bars to entertain you for however many nights your there. You can walk along the river for as long as you like while enjoying the sunlight on your face. Outside the city there are numerous things to see and do and the whole time your there your biggest fear isn't will I get run over by a tram but which mom and pop store should I by a beer stein from.

The end.