Beautiful city...the lovely old buildings are very ornate and look gorgeous covered in snow. Unfortunately with the snow comes the cold brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Can't stay outside too long - got to keep moving and trying not to slip. There are people who's job it is to go around with a wheelbarrow full of pebbles sprinkling them on the ground to make the paths less slippery - works well. They sprinkle salt on the roads to help melt the snow.
We stayed in a two bedroom apartment in Rossauer Leande just outside the city centre and directly opposite a train station which proved to be very handy.
Went to visit the Schloss Schonbrunn - a large palace with beautiful large parklike grounds - unfortunately it was all under very deep snow - looked beautiful but absolutely no green at all - I've no idea what kind of plants they have there. There's supposed to be a maze but again the garden was whited out and we couldn't see it.
There was a christmas market set up in front of the palace - a great setting - and of course we ate lots of goodies and drank gluhwein to keep warm. Took some lovely photos.
One thing that struck me as strange was the dirty graffitied subway stations - it was like being in a different world every time we went to the stations.
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