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After Stephansdom, I went to the Hofburg Imperial Palace. Looking for the Hofbur Imperial Palace, rather. It’s walking distance. I don’t remember which street I walked through; it won’t be difficult for you to figure out in any case. Maybe you could walk to the Opera, and figure out from there. I didn’t really go inside the palace or anything (I don’t even know if one can go in—it serves as the residence of the President of Austria) but, anyway, the walk to the place is fun. Looking at the map now, I think I walked through Heldenplatz. Yeah, positive. (Sidenote: if you need to use a loo, there’s one in here, in Heldenplatz. It’s just outside the entrance to the Imperial Palace. 1€ to use the loo; 0.5€ to use the urinal. Just mentioning this because the loos in stations are not very clean.)

After that I headed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum (entrance: 10€). Again, walking distance. Opposite this is the Naturhistorisches Museum (I didn’t go there). Photography is permitted in most (all?) museums here, but you’re not allowed to use the flash, of course. Here are some pictures:

I then randomly walked across the road and landed at MuseumsQuartier. Just walked around the are a bit before heading to a kaffe haus. I took a random street to look for a café. I ended at this small place called Cafe Kafka. The staff didn’t speak English, so I had an interesting time trying to explain what I wanted.

It was about 15:00 or so at this point, so I still had lot of daylight. Again, I walked on a random street, and I saw... snow! Lots of it. I had never seen snow before I came to Vienna.

Later in the night, after taking some rest in the dorm, I headed out to look for one of the recommended bars. Then, halfway, I decided I didn’t want to go to bar alone. While walking back to the hostel, I cam across Rani, an Indian restaurant recommended by folks here. I had no intention to have Indian food, but I wanted to check the place out anyway. People like it! The place is quite cheap (vegetarian curries costs between two and three euros), and servings are large. I mean really large. It’s run by Indians (Punjabis); they’ve been in Vienna for about ten years. (Sidenote: most Indians I saw in Vienna were newspaper vendors from Punjab.) I just had a mug of beer and left.

I’ve uploaded quite a few pictures today. All pictures from Vienna so far »