We want to start our day with breakfast in a traditional Viennese coffeehouse, the Café Ritter. Therefore, we take the bus to Mariahilferstraße. Famous writers such as Peter Rosegger, Ludwig Anzengruber, and other artists have frequented this café. After breakfast at Café Ritter, we take the subway to the Volkstheater at Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz. From there, it […]
Walk in Vienna – Part2
We take the number 13A bus from the Kolschitzkygasse stop at the Austria Trend Hotel near the Theresianum to the Lederergasse stop at the Theater in der Josefstadt. We get some interesting insights into Vienna’s future-oriented street and traffic planning. Most roads are one-way. If they are wide enough, there is a lane for cars, […]
Vienna International Centre, Danube Tower and Freyung
The day after our return from Bratislava, we visited the Vienna International Center and then the Danube Park with the Danube Tower, where we met two friends from Rosenheim (Germany). They had come from Rosenheim to Vienna and returned in the afternoon. The friendship has existed for decades, since our time in Munich. We hadn’t […]
Short visit to Bratislava
After arriving in Bratislava, we cross the Most SNP (Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising) to reach the UFO Tower. While cars pass above our heads, pedestrians and cyclists can cross the Danube below. It is the world’s longest cable-stayed bridge to have one pylon. At the top of which is a restaurant and a […]
City Center in Vienna, off the beaten path
Our tour starts right in the city center at St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Today, we want to visit less well-known places, but we first look at this impressive building. A famous detail in the interior is probably the so-called Fenstergucker (window gazer) on the pulpit. It shows a stone self-portrait of the sculptorAnton Pilgram looking out […]
City Walk in Vienna
To start our stay in Vienna we walk from the main station to the city center. On our city walk, we are particularly interested in seeing how the city has changed over the last 15 years. Our hotel, the Austria Trend Hotel beim Theresianum, is located on Favoritenstrasse in Vienna’s 3rd district, Wieden, about a […]