Honeymoon Part 2: Vienna

The first thing that greeted us in Vienna was this awesomely-translated metro ticket machine:

"OK, I buy the ticket"

The public transit system in Vienna was seriously amazing, it goes all over the city, is so clean, and - best of all - runs on schedule! Every stop has a digital sign displaying exactly how long until the next train, and the trains actually come when they are supposed to. It is a miracle of science.

The second thing that greeted us in Vienna was Stephansplatz, home to St. Stephan's cathedral, which has been a church since 1147. Dang, Europe is old.

Then we went to the clock museum, but it was so wonderful and full of so many clocks I am going to write a separate post about it later.

Like in Prague, we were also located near a Christmas market in front of a fairytale-like building, although this time it wasn't a church, but the Vienna city hall:

Who would have thought something named "Rathaus" would be so beautiful?

We went to the Belvedere palace, which is now a museum, and saw Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, which was bigger and more golden than I had imagined.

No pictures inside the museum, so here we are outside of it.

We also learned that the name for Woody Allen's genre is pretty much the same in every language:

"Sex-Komödie"

Other things we did in Vienna but didn't take pictures of:

• Saw the Viennese version of the Stata Center, aka the Hundertwasserhaus
• Ate a lot of sachertorte in various coffee houses, including one that was apparently Freud's favorite
• Saw "The Hobbit" (before you judge us too harshly, it was cold and raining and we were exhausted)
• Laughed every time we saw the word "Wiener," which - being German for "Viennese" - was a lot

Basically, Vienna was like a really beautiful Germany, with really delicious food.