I should have known that speaking about Vienna so many times to my wife will eventually lead to us having a short vacation there.

Last month my wife finally found a decent flight from Nice to Vienna (direct flights were unreasonably expensive before). We spent wonderful 5 days there, the weather was still good (middle September) and we saw a lot of places some of which were new to me.

The picture on the right is from Schonbrun Palace, luxurious “summer house” for the Habsburg rulers. It’s even more impressive when you see it live.

Vienna is full of places like this. There’s enough to keep you “busy” for days, just by walking in the center of the city. Castles, museums, expositions… many of them are hundreds of years old. We spent almost an hour just going through the silver collection of the royal family!

Highly recommended as a tourist destination.