Monday, August 1, 2011

Vienna Day 2

Today I went to the Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace). It was a very nice place, I had difficulties getting there but that's fine because once I figured it out then it was as easy as crossing the street (just an expression, it wasn't actually just across the street). This morning I woke up and went to google maps and got the walking directions to this place (I emailed them to myself and got them on my iPod) and some other church. There were some other museums and stuff on the way so I had my day figured out and everything seemed to be going perfectly. I walked down the street to Spar and got myself some sandwiches and Nestea so I have lunch, snacks and drinks for the day and don't need to be worried about high prices at these attractions or having to go to McDonald's or something gross like that. So I walked out of Spar, plugged in my headphones, pressed play and started walking. I got lost very quickly because of false directions. It had perfect directions that led right to Spar and from there it made no sense. It said turn right, walk 20m on Autofstr. which I did and then turn onto Heizing hauptstr. which turned out to be nowhere near where I was. I was slightly confused by this but thought that maybe I screwed up somewhere. It was then that I also realized that I forgot the camera so I went back to the hostel to get it. I then started from step 1 and I turned down this street that was apparently Heizing haputstr. and attempted to follow directions from there. That didn't work so instead I wend back to Autofstr. and walked straight hoping that I'd get to the right street. I walked about 1400m and realized that I was nowhere near where I should be. So I say down at looked at a map. After spending about 10 minutes trying to find where I am on the map and how I'm going to get to this place. I still knew how to get back the hostel so I wasn't very worried. I finally found the U4 (Underground Railway 4) on the map. I followed that on the map to hopefully find out where I am because I saw that the U4 was across the street from me. I found that The Schloss Schönbrunn was just off of the U4 railway and that was good enough for me. I walked to the subway and found the Schönbrunn stop and that I was about 4 stops away from it so I was all set. I got on the train, got off at the proper stop walked out and I could see the Palace. So I walked there and wow, it's a very nice place. Beautiful landscape and building plus it was free. I walked around for about 2 hours and saw everything then sat down and had lunch on a bench. I walked around a little bit more to see if I missed anything interesting. I was going to go inside and check it all out but there was a big line so I decided that I can do that tomorrow quickly in the morning when there's no line. I had directions from this palace to a church named Stephansdom. I walked out of the palace and I was going to go see this church. I got out there and saw a sign for a technology museum so that caught my eye and I walked there. That was a big disappointment, oh well I'm under 19 so I got in free so I don't really mind. The most interesting thing that I saw near this museum was a Ferrari 599 GTB  that was parked outside of the museum. I took one picture while in the museum and was able to walk through and see everything within an hour. So I started my walk back to the subway so I could go back to my hostel, plan out my tomorrow and blog about my day. I'm also tired from all the walking today and it was raining so coming back seemed like a good idea before it got too bad. Here are the pictures from the palace.
















The Museum of Technology

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The beauty parked outside of the museum.



I took a picture of a train because I thought it was cool and thought it'd be significant.
It wasn't, there were many trains in here. 

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