So where will you find the Spanish Riding School? Not in Spain, try Vienna in Austria! The Spanish Riding School is an amazing show featuring white Lipizzaner horses doing amazing tricks. I saw them practising once and it was quite engrossing.
Other things that are great about Vienna include:
Climbing up inside the tower of St Stephens Cathedral
Eating Sachertorte at the Sacher Hotel – overpriced but Vienna is rightly famous for its cakes
Going to a Viennese Waltz show – yes, it was touristy but good fun
Seeing the statues of Mozart, Strauss and Schubert
Going to the fancy restaurant in the Coburg Palace – fantastic foodie experience – but ruinously expensive
Seeing the Hundertwasser house (there is also an example of his work in Kawa Kawa in NZ)
The Schönbrunn Palace
There is a fun park in Vienna that most tourists go to, but I didn't. It is called the Prater and has a famous ferris wheel.
Other than the cakes, I didn't actually love Austrian food. Wiener Schnitzel takes its name from Vienna – but I found the versions I had too large and heavy.
Oh I love Vienna, I think it's my favourite city. I particularly like the Naschmarkt, the wonderful food market I posted about in the summer http://onionsandpaper.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-naschmarkt-vienna.html?m=1 and thanks to a recommendation we found a lovely modern restaurant that did a lighter take on traditional Austrian dishes, where we had a Wiener Schnitzel that was neither huge nor heavy. It was wonderful!
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