Day 24 - Vienna

After a very nice breakfast at the pension, we headed out to Hofburg Palace. It contains the unbelievable wealth of the Hapsburg Dynasty. We toured the silver and china rooms, the Kaiser Apartments and the treasury displaying amazing crown jewels, swords, scepters and robes.

We got a quick bite to eat and found an internet cafe to catch up with family and friends. Meanwhile the gray, drizzly weather following us from Prague arrived. We decided to hop the metro anyway and make our way to Grinzing in the hills above Vienna. This is wine country and is quaint and small compared to Vienna. We continued up from Grinzing to the end of the line. Unfortunately, the cloud ceiling was so low that we could not enjoy the spectacular views of the city as we had seen in the pictures of the guide book. We joked as we stood next to the sign extorting the wonderful view. On this day, the visibility was about 100 feet due to the fog!

We hiked up a trail into the forest and climbed a short way to a small look-out tower. On a better day we would have happily paid the small toll to climb to the top and enjoy the view. But today, we could barely even see the top of the tower, let alone the view!

We returned to the room, laughing at how our good luck with the weather had finally run out...