I arrived in cold, raining Vienna yesterday evening at around 4pm, and checked into the hostel. Heading out to find food for dinner, I walked past a bunch of supermarkets, and thought "I'll just see what's up this street and buy groceries on the way back..." - not expecting that the supermarkets would all close at 5pm on Saturday. So last night I went out for dinner on my own - I've been avoiding it partly to save money and partly because the smoking in restaurants puts me off my food. I went to dinner early to avoid crowds, and sat in the furthest corner away from the only two other people in the restaurant... and five minutes after I ordered someone comes in, sits down 2 tables away from me and gets a pipe out. Seriously. I enjoyed my Wiener Schnitzel (not quite as big as my head by diameter or volume) and my huge stein of beer anyway, and got out of there as quickly as I could.
Boon arrived this morning, and I went out to the airport to meet him - after checking back into the hostel and having lunch in a cafe, we were wandering around and found a beisl (apparently a local pub) advertising apple strudel outside. We were still a little peckish, so we went in - after being sat at a table with someone else, and waiting 10 minutes for a waitress, we tried to order our apple strudel, but the waitress rudely told us "this is not a coffee house", took the menus away and refused to serve us. So much for hospitality.
Apart from the rude locals (the person in the tourist information booth was also rude when I asked her which tram to catch), Vienna has been cold (currently 7 degrees), raining on and off, and doesn't seem that interesting a city. We visited the Hofsburg today and saw lots of cutlery and crockery, visited Obie's recommended Cafe Demel which was packed and had unimpressive sacher torte, and wandered around. Pretty much everything was closed.
Tomorrow the plan is to head to Salzburg for a day trip. Unfortunately I think I have some sort of throat or chest infection, so not feeling the greatest - I am under orders to dress warmly and drink lots of juice. Hopefully I feel better for the delightful 3 degree maximum in Salzburg tomorrow. Maybe I'll get that snow after all.
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We visited the Hofsburg today and saw lots of cutlery and crockery, visited Obie's recommended Cafe Demel which was packed and had unimpressive sacher torte
You lie. Why would you say such a thing?
After reading your travel journals, why am I not surprised you and Boon got together and looked for a place to eat? :D
Because it was a terrible cafe with unimpressive sacher torte :P
Postscript: we went to Cafe Sacher the day after, and had original sachertorte, and it was awesome!
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