Easy start to the day, breakfast up the street is good. However last night’s sleep was dreadful,  doof doof music and drunk Viennese shouting in German till about 4am. If I could have opened the windows and yelled ” halt die Klappe, ihr lauten, betrunkenen Idioten”  it might have helped – or not! Dunno?

I suppose it didn’t help that I’m fighting a cold, felt it hard to breathe, the room was hot, or, it just could be hypochondria? I combat it with drugs (some not strictly legal here), tissues and cough lozenges, all the while being advised by the good Dr Navigator to take more drugs. She’d know of course!

Before I forget, today ( Friday) is a nation wide public holiday for All Saints Day, only tourist places, museums and food places open.

The first stop is the Albertina Museum. Supposed to be a good collection of modern and impressionist art work here. Simone and I go, the other 2 go shopping. There is a long story to how this museum came about but I won’t bore you with it. Check it out here:  https://www.albertina.at/en/

There is a good collection of Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Dagas, Picasso, and many others.

Next we take the HOHO Bus out to  Schonbrunn Palace, the Hapsbergs summer palace. Poor buggers really did it tough. https://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/about-schoenbrunn/the-palace/history

The city of Vienna is crawling with people, the public holiday as well as travellers, not sure but the locals says it’s busier than it has been ever.

Tonight we dine at Puestners again, it’s very busy, they turn all non reservation people away. We had a reservation, luckily.

Tomorrow we’re off to Bratislava in Slovakia for a one night stop over.

Gute nacht

Pauolo