I don’t want each of these posts to be an essay. Not only that I don’t remember every single detail of every trip – some cities stood out to me more than others. So each post will be more picture filled and maybe an anecdote thrown in if it comes to me.
With that being said, let me start with the first city I went to – Vienna, Austria.
After being in Prague for 3 weeks attempting to learn the Czech language – which was wholly unsuccessful – a huge group of people and I traveled four hours to Vienna for the weekend.
It was a gorgeous old town with ornate buildings, amazing food, and businesses that close at early hours. Not a party city by any means.
We walked around in the cold snow dusted city and looked for attractions that everyone was willing to pay for – sadly those attractions were few and far between.
But where we did settle on seeing was more than worth it. The Albertina, a 200+ year old art museum, was my shining moment of the whole trip.
State Rooms of various colors with giant chandeliers to walk through, paintings by Picasso; Monet; and Klimt, and other famous drawings that you’re only shown in grade school art classes.
We also went into the library that inspired Beauty and the Beast and as gorgeous as it was, you’re not allowed to touch anything. Someone tell me what the point of a library is if you’re not allowed to touch anything.
This trip was my “trial-run” trip. To see if I can make trains on time, get the feel of leaving the country, experience a slightly different culture. It was a nice beginning to the adventure that was the entire semester.
