Here are the first pics and the report with them....
We had an early flight so we landed in Vienna shortly after 8 AM so we were in the city by 9 AM. First of all we decided to have breakfast which we did in a 'Kaffeehaus' (coffee house) for which Wien is famous. It was like we imagined it: people from Vienna come there to have a coffee (they do have different names for it than we have in Germany although in Austria they do speak german too).
The evening before Kerstin and I had tried to decide on a rough route for the day as Vienna does have a lot to offer. Our idea was to go to Schoenbrunn in the morning before the hundreds of tour busses arrive. So after we had finished breakfast we took the subway to Schoenbrunn which was home to the famous 'Sissi' (not sure the film series with Romy Schneider and Karl Heinz Böhm is known in the US - I LOVE to watch them).
We already were impressed seeing the main entry of it. We had decided not to enter the castle itself but we wanted to see the park. So we went around and found this guy playing the harp...
His neighbours were those two guys and they just impressed me... that moment I didn't know how much more statues like these we would see in the hours to come...
Once we came to the back side of Schloss Schoenbrunn we were just like 'WOW!'
The Neptun fountain was rather impressing....
Back side of Schoenbrunn Castle with parts of the garden:
And to give you an impression how the garden looked like: this is a wide angle pic made from up on the Neptun fountain.
Going back towards the main entrance we passed several of the alleys where you can stroll around at leisure... (we didn't as we still had so much stuff to see...
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More to follow soon...
