Penultimate Day in Vienna

Saturday 15th March

Another damp day, but this time colder than yesterday, so we wrapped up well. We still had a leisurely start and headed off to the Spanish Riding School for our booked performance. Unfortunately they didn’t allow any photography, so nothing to show. However, we were unimpressed by the whole thing with three 10 minute routines and 5 minutes of introduction between each. Each routine was very repetitive, so we were pleased we didn’t book for the longer performance on the Sunday. Maybe ballet would have been more exciting (did I really think that?).

After this we headed back to our usual lunch venue at Nordsee, taking this image on the way which is the exterior to the Riding School (just to the left out of view).

The images below are from the Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church). It always seems to be the case that the old unkept church exteriors appear to have the best looking interiors.

Whilst I was taking pictures I think Vanessa sat down at a pew for a quick prayer or two. (She would need more than that to get back into his good books). Afterwards we carried on wandering through the streets when she suddenly realised she had lost her phone in the church. I could track it’s location and it was still inside, so we dashed back for it. It wasn’t where she thought she’d put it down and a kind person told her where he had seen it. No missed calls from the almighty though – what did she expect! So we carried on with our trek and came across the other end of a passage that we photographed yesterday, followed by another old church.

About time for a coffee and cake (at an establishment that takes credit card this time). After this, we headed out towards the University Campus but with a small detour to look at the inside of the Russian Church we visited yesterday. Unfortunately photos weren’t allow, but that didn’t matter as the inside was very dull. So onto the university and the Academic Department Building – why you may ask? I saw this building in LocationScout which I’ve already mentioned and was amazed with the architecture…

This wasn’t the only impressive site…

The day was drawing to a close and in the distance we could see the amusement park lighting up in the clouds, so we headed off for a quick look.

Trying our hand at ICM (in camera movement) I had these few shots. I would have preferred a darker sky, but to be honest we were getting quite cold by now, so kept our stint in the park to just 30 minutes.

Headed back to our apartment for our evening meal. Tomorrow being our last day in Vienna, but we hope to see a few more locations before we need to leave for the airport.