so today was the museum filled day...yesterday I just wasnt in the mood for it, although the weather was a bit dismal so it would have been a good day for it. Instead yesterday I walked around town a bit and looked at the shops. also went to an open market and bought some cheese and bread for my train lunch tomorrow. not the most amazing market ever, but they had some nice looking food shops. went to the legendary cafe central with toula, my new aussie friend and we had coffee and apple strudel with vanilla sauce..it was a cute well decorated cafe with a grand piano and lovely music while we ate. also went to the haas and haas tea shop and smelled all the lovely teas. with all the sweets ive been eating its a good thing my hostel is about a 25 minute walk out of the center of town....been basically doing tons of walking everyday, so much so that my feet have really weird blisters on them...inward blisters really with cuts on the inside? hurts like heck to walk on them and im not really sure what i can do to help them out. anyhoo, today I woke up early and went to the schonnbrunn palace then went to the domayer cafe for some breakfast. spent a few hours reading a book-basking in the sun of the gardens....very beautiful and relaxing. the palace is quite lovely and had a very interesting audio guide along with it. the thing i liked the most was they had gold decorations around the mirrors and in some of the rooms the decorations had little holders that displayed all sorts of gorgeous vases...they also had a pretty room of monglo-persian miniatures covering the entire rooms walls which were pretty cool...apparently the king was a pretty no frills type of guy and his bed looked simpler than mine even. i was pretty impressed. learned a bit about the royal family and their lives which was pretty cool. forgot most of it by now though:) also went to the sisi museum and imperial apartments which were quite nice. then met up with toula again and we went to eat some legendary sachertorte...very yummy chocolate cake...yes austria hasnt been too kind to my diet:)
other than that, lifes been pretty relaxing. heading off tomorrow to prague for a few days so should be good. getting excited to come back home...
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