For our first night in Vienna, an authentic Austrian dinner and beer were on the cards, so we jumped on a tram to Sudbahnhof and got off quickly when Em spied a beerhall.
Inside, we initially tried I read the German menu, but weren't too successful... Em had the frankfurters mit gulash und kartofel, although Viennese call kartofell (potato) earth apple... I had schnitzel mit kartofel salat und semmel. I had an Ottakringer vom fass (from the keg) and Em had a Pils.
We ate, took photos, chatted and people watched for a good two hours, and planned that once we left we'd go waking back down the road we came down on the train; it had some pretty old buildings on it that were nicely lit. However, by the time we left it was 11.30, and we were a little disorientated...
We were also a bit shocked at how cool he night air had become, so decided a quick walk back to the hotel was the best idea.. Unfortunately we didn't know exactly where the train came from... Ok, I said I did, and so we started walking, and hit Kärntner Straße, which I had been on earlier. So we went down there an hung a right and walked for a solid ten minutes....
Turns out that lead us to Stadtpark, which we had both learnt earlier today that it is not near our hotel... So we went left, and ended up at Stephansplatz, almost in the middle of town... But not near the road we wanted to be on! 20 minutes wasted on this route proved less hopeful than Stadtpark, because we still didn't know what direction to go to! And now it was past midnight and there weren't many people around to ask. So we just kept walking... It was an adventure!
We stumbled upon a very pretty but unlit church and building, which originally looked like it was on a main road. Turns out the one taxi that drove past it was really the only car using this way... On we walked, around the back of this nice building, and came out to a bigger old building an a park... We mayyyy have just found or way back to the main road!!!
We walked out onto Burgring, and found out bearings to make it back to the hotel... As we walked around the ring road, we came upon the pretty buildings we originally wanted to see - and all of them had their lights off!! No wonder we were disorientated from the start!
When we eventually found our hotel, we collapsed into bed; or 'quick walk home' turned into a two hour adventure through the old streets of Vienna!
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