Thursday, July 8, 2010

Schonbrunn Palace

View of the front of Schonbrunn palace. It's HUGE. And realllly pretty. We first bought our tickets, which would let us in to the Imperial Chambers, and the gardens, and the maze (which we ended up not having time for) and the apple strudel tour (extremely important).

After we got tickets we ate at the palace cafe. They called their Hamburgers 'Habsburgers'. So cute! We then took a tour of the apartments. They didn't allow pictures inside :(, but we saw the room where Mozart first played for Empress Maria Theresa. That was awesome.
After the tour we walked out to the gardens. What you can see in the distance of this picture is the 'Gloriette' - their viewing gazebo for their gardens.

Fountain in the gardens.

Back of the palace.

Strudel lessons! This man showed us how to make apple strudel, and we got a free tasting sample. They also gave us the recipe, which I'm bringing home yay!



After this, we went back to the hotel, picked up our bags, and headed back to London/Wurzburg. It was a fantastic weekend full of museums and palaces and walking all over Vienna!

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