Anne & Joyce decided that they wanted to do the city bus tours and Ian & I wanted to walk so we went our separate ways outside of the Opera house only to meet up 15 mins later in the Spanish riding school. On the way there we went though the Burggarten and saw the Palm house, it was a grey morning but much warmer than the previous day. There was some sort of Army display or recruitment drive going on at the Hofburg palace so we could not get any good photos due to all the tents and displays going on. It did have a bonus though as there were lots of Braatwurst and gluwein stalls which is where we had our lunch. We went into a big marquee where there was a live band and rows of trestle tables set up. Some people were already drinking steins of beer and clapping along to the music with great gusto. A scene that we wold assume typical of Germany - Austria. We went to the Spanish School of Riding (See next post) and then walked around the Parliament buildings down to the Rathaus (Town Hall) Which has to be the biggest & most impressive Town Hall I have ever seen. We walked back through the Volksgarten, there are a lot of parks in Vienna, we stopped off for a beer before wending our way back to the hotel.
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