Today was a travel day. We were going from Salzburg to Vienna which is on the opposite side of the country. We left the hotel at 7am to make an appointment at 10am in Steyr which is about halfway. We got a tour of the Gartenhaus by the architect that designed it, Gernot Hertl. The building dates back to the 1600s and he took the bones of the building and transformed it into something new but old. Hertl uses the house as a summer home. It was an interesting complex but the heavy concrete walls transfer too much cold for me to be comfortable. Maybe it is just better in the summertime.
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| Gartenhaus |
The second stop was just a little ways outside of Vienna in St. Pölten, the capital of Lower Austria. We walked around the Landhaus complex which is the government center of the city and the state of Lower Austria. The problem was that it is Easter Monday which is a federal holiday in Austria so everything was closed. So after a short peek around and some lunch it was time to hop back on the bus.
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| Part of Landhaus complex |
We arrived in Vienna around 3:30pm and had a few hours before meeting back at the hotel for dinner. A group of us decided to go the aquarium around the corner called Haus des Meeres. The wild thing about this aquarium is that it is built inside of an old World War II anti-aircraft tower from 1944. It was amazing how they repurposed such a horrid piece of wartime weaponry. The layout was interesting and the animals were pretty cool.
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| Haus des Meeres |
We walked around some more before heading back to the hotel for dinner. It was a long day and some rest is much needed before we start the truly extensive part of our journey. Look forward to more Viennese fun.
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