Butterflies And Flowers

 The Vienna butterfly conservatory is in definite need of an overhaul.  It was converted from one of the imperial greenhouses.  Andreas did get these pretty flower photos while we were in there in December two years ago.

Cloudy Vienna

More rooftops and statuary around the natural history museum and archives in Vienna.

Last Of The Blue Skies

 

This was the last day we had beautiful skies in Vienna.  Andreas took advantage, getting some wonderful photos.  These were of the area between Stephensplatz and the city hall.  Both had Christmas markets in front of them.

Vienna Rooftops

Lots of rooftops from a walk through the Ringstrasse area.

Very Late Christmas Market

These photos are from Vienna, when we were there two years ago for the Christmas market.  As you can see, we got bright blue skies and brisk temperatures.

Skip Dinner, Go For Breakfast

We didn't get to Krakow on Monday night as planned.  Instead, we allowed ourselves to be bumped and received 500 euros and a free night with dinner and breakfast at the NH Vienna airport hotel.  As per my post yesterday, we had already had dinner a few hours before and weren't really hungry, but we decided to go look anyway.  Dinner was miserable looking!  There weren't any real straight up meats.  The pastas looked pasty.  Lots of fish, but we don't eat fish.  I had salad.  Andreas even had salad.  It was that bad.

 Breakfast, on the other hand, was much better.  There was a large selection of fresh fruit.  The eggs were fresh.  Even the wait staff were perkier.  Lots of fresh juice, too, and pastries.  

We arrived late to both meals, so it wasn't a difference of timing in that they were at the end of serving.  It was just that dinner was that bad.  At both meals, they were still putting out food when we left.

At Vienna Airport

 We had time to eat between our flights on the way to Krakow from Chisinau last month.  Vienna's airport food is overpriced, of course.  All airport food is.  This, though, was also bland.  We both had goulash and it just didn't have much spice!