Vienna & Australia, what's the connection?....

Hi All

I have no idea what the connection is, but there seems to be an Aussie/Vienna connection somewhere. The first thing Kearie & i saw when we got into the city this morning was an Aussie Pub. we didn't go in, because it was way to early, but we are going back there sometime. I took her pic outside.


I took the pic and laughing to Kearie I said "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie' and this guy yells "Oi, Oi, Oi".. It was a scream.

We then walked around the city and came to some kind of event in a huge park, all kinds of food stalls and tables and a huge screen with lots of chairs. The screen was blank so whatever it is for wasn't happening today, but there were people everywhere and so we decided to have lunch there. We came across an Aussie food stall, it was hilarious. They had the menu up on the wall and one of the items was outback potatoes, they had the ingredients written underneath and although I couldn't read them all, I did notice that they came with avocado dip. I must tell my nephew Dalton, not to go out bush ever again without his avocado dip.... I just laughed, what do they think grows in the outback, avocados?? I took a pic


Check it out....

We then did a tour of the city in a vintage car, more like a vintage bus, but it was great. The city is beautiful and almost everyone speaks English, which is great because my German in worse than my French, if that is possible... We went to a small local restaurant for dinner tonight and the waitress hearing we spoke English gave us the English menu. I couldn't believe it, I have had heaps of English menu's and maps etc handed to me, on this trip and others, I have been to 26 countries and this is the first time I have been given an English menu with the Australia flag on the top.... Yep an Aussie flag, not an English one. Kearie was like, "So?". But I have never seen that, it is always and English flag and on the odd occasion an American one, never, ever Australian. I loved it, it was great. But I am wondering what the connection is, there must be something that I am not aware of in this city that links it in some way to us... Curiouser and curiouser!! I didn't take a photo of the menu as I didn't want the woman to think I was mental, but I was tempted. It was brilliant.

Tomorrow Kearie and I are planning on taking a train to Baden, we have been told it is a lovely village. I shall let you know how that turns out. Kearie want to use the computer so I will close now, I will leave you with some pics of Vienna, it really is lovely.

Cheers til Later

Lones


A Mozart Statue and a treble cleft of flowers in front


One of the horse and carts you can take to see Vienna. As you travel through the city you get whiffs of horse manure, they are the reason!!


Vienna has some incredible buildings


This statue is of the Empress who had 16 children, the youngest was Marie Antoinette, who married King Louis the 16th of France and was subsequently beheaded. See you can learn history on this blog, pity I can't remember the Empress's name!!


Where we had lunch


Our view from the table we were eating lunch at, the place was really lovely