So Much

We have moved to Graz, Austria, just a couple hours' south of Vienna by train. Hubby spent 2 years here, and it's such a nice city to visit. Our hotel is a little farther out than we thought, so we get our exercise by walking up to the grocery store daily for our lunch and then catching the bus because the tram tracks are being repaired. The bus ride takes about 15 minutes to get to the middle of town, and from there, we can take trams all over the rest of the city.

Our last day of Vienna, though, saw us going to Schoenbrunn Palace. Here are a few quick pics of the outside. I couldn't take any inside.

Schoenbrunn was supposed to be 3 times as large as this but the money ran out

Close-up

The gardens at Schoenbrunn

An unusual urn

 Closer to the fountain

Fiaker in front of fountain

Us in front of the fountain

Back of Schoenbrunn from gardens

After Schoenbrunn we went to the Hundertwasser Haus:

This designer didn't believe in straight walls, so he designed this and many other things that people either love or hate. The residents of this house are allowed to paint all of the outside that they can reach from their apartments.

These are random pictures as we were on the tram around Vienna:

This store says "40 Years To Go"

Darling little store sign that had lots of cat trinkets

And of course, for those of you wondering what lunch and dinner that night looked like, I shan't dissapoint:

Kaesekrainer, which is sausage with cheese. They drill a single hole in the bun. Fabulous.

Goulash with a knoedel, which is a bread dumpling

Chicken schnitzel with rice - very tasty rice, actually

So, we moved onto Graz.

A view from my seat on the train

And then once we arrived in Graz, we got ourselves to the hotel and then went back into the city to show the kids around. These pictures were taken on top of Schlossberg, which was a fortress.

This is the clock tower. The hour hand is bigger than the minute hand because at the time it was more important to see the hour hand far away.

These are the foothills of the Alps

The black thing in the middle of the pic is the art museum

Little gecko on top of Schlossberg

Walking down the street

Look at the detail of this building

So that was our first day in Graz. No food pictures of my wonderful doener kebap because I ate it too quickly.