Vienna Blog

Hello All,

We posted a Vienna Blog, but didn't show up where it

was suppose to.

Basically, if you want to see it scroll down.

It's after the snow in London Blog.

cheers,

Visit with friends & random London pic's

Our friends Greg and Sue were visiting last week and we had a wonderful time sightseeing and just catching up with them.

Here we were at the Royal Festival Hall about to enjoy the London Phillharmonic.



Taking in a little more culture at the British Museum . . .

And a different kind of culture at Piccadilly Circus . . .

We live just a 5 minute walk from the National Theatre which, in addition to housing some fantastic theatre, is also a terrific space in and of itself. It constantly has various musicians playing in its main lobby and right now it has this great giant's livingroom type display outside its main doors. It is totally open to the public and people are loving it - us included! There's Ry on the right . . .

This is Neil's Yard - a fun little spot just a few minutes from LSE. It is a bit dangerous because it offers fantastic ice cream cones which can be an excellent distractor on sunny days.

This was a children's festival we stumbled across on a walk one day by Covent Garden. Ry especially loved the puppet shows!

Here is one of my favourite views on my daily walk to school.

We're trying to be better with the blogging, so we'll try to keep these little random posts coming - but no promises :-)

We'll also catch up one day on our adventures in Prague, Vienna and Amsterdam - stay tuned!

Snow in London!

This post is now way out of date - but we thought we would post it anyway since it was such a neat experience. This picture was taken on April 6th and it was the first snow London saw all winter. It was amazing - the kind of thick, white heavy snow that begs to be made into a snowman. In fact, people were doing just that in parks all over the city. You should have seen how excited they all were! I guess if we Canadians only got snow once every few years, we'd be pretty excited as well. As we were on our way to the airport to catch our plane for Vienna, we didn't get a chance to really enjoy it - but we did manage to get this picture for proof.

Vienna

Vienna

This post should have been up long ago, but we wanted to get the pictures up for all to enjoy.

Ted and Tracey came overseas and we had an absolutely fantastic trip with them.

First stop, Vienna.

On the tower of one of the Cathedrals...Stephansdom.

She's pretty happy.

The Gates of the Hofburg I believe...

The problem with blogging way after the fact is that you lose all of the details.

The thing that struck me about Vienna was how clean and beautiful it was.

The Architecture is amazing. Everywhere you turn, something else gorgeous is in front of you.

Except for here...

This is the former residence of a very famous composer... I give you all 3 guesses

This is the front of...the Parliament building? Where is that Rick Steve's book when I need it now...

A building at the beginning of Stadtpark...you can listen to symphonies here

This is the Rathuas
Me standing at the Rathaus with the National Theatre of Austria (called the Burgtheatre?) behind me.

Just a cool shot...I give credit to Ted for seeing it.

This is the WWII memorial

Street level view of the Stephansdom

And This was crazy...we were just wandering around the streets, literally getting lost, and we stumbled upon the cathedral that looked like they had a film crew inside...so we popped our heads in and found the Vienna Boys Choir being set up to shoot a video of some kind.

We got a free concert...it was awesome.

the trip was great.