Lost in Vienna

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t the Habsburgs but I know a lot more than I did before my visit! The Palace has 1441 rooms but I only wandered through 40 of the most important ones. I was very pleased I had made the effort to visit while I was in Vienna. I planned to walk up to the Gloriette, but the temperature was rapidly dropping, so I abandoned that idea in favour of catching the tram back to the hotel.<figure id="8240"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*Co0H3HBcBabNpDkS"><figcaption>The Gloriette. Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@allanwads?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Allan Wadsworth</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure>I ran to catch the tram (the driver waited for me!) and had an uneventful journey back to the station. Our hotel is maybe 200 metres from the station but do you think I could find it? Of course not! I ended up walking for a half- hour before I stopped to ask where I was.Naturally, I had walked in the opposite direction and was told to just go back to the station and go the other way. But somehow, I became hopelessly, completely, utterly lost!

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I could not even find the railway station and it’s bloody huge!I walked down street after street and didn’t see a soul. God only knows where I was. I ended up seeing a tram line in the distance and headed for that. I hopped on a tram that said it was going to Mariahilfer — I recognised this as the street our hotel was in. I could not believe I was 4 tram stops away from the station.I jumped out at the station and still couldn’t find my way! I have completely lost my innate sense of direction! Completely! I blame the anaesthetic I had in July. (He was a Russian anaesthetist!) I think I have been lost in every place I’ve been so far. I have given up finding my way from the station to our lodgings even when it’s only 200 metres away because I have been lost every single time. I have always been appointed navigator because I have never been lost anywhere in the world until that operation!Relief washed over me as I entered our hotel through the revolving doors, and I have stayed put ever since, only venturing to the café downstairs for a bowl of soup. Hopefully, I have lost some weight!Off to Prague tomorrow!</article></body>

And I barely got out of bed.

We arrived in Vienna in the rain and on a public holiday. Not a good start! I was not well so I stayed in bed and went to sleep. After a good night’s sleep, I awoke feeling much better so headed down to a breakfast of juice, coffee, pork sausages wrapped in cheese and bacon, and scrambled eggs. Not a good idea at all.

My stomach bug hadn’t died overnight and I was straight back to my room. Keeley headed off to the Schönbrunn Palace while I slept some more. Hours later, the housemaid woke me so I headed off to the Palace. Keeley had been through the Palace as well as the Zoo by the time I arrived so I took my time walking through and listening to the history with an audio guide.

I still don’t know much about the Habsburgs but I know a lot more than I did before my visit! The Palace has 1441 rooms but I only wandered through 40 of the most important ones. I was very pleased I had made the effort to visit while I was in Vienna. I planned to walk up to the Gloriette, but the temperature was rapidly dropping, so I abandoned that idea in favour of catching the tram back to the hotel.

I ran to catch the tram (the driver waited for me!) and had an uneventful journey back to the station. Our hotel is maybe 200 metres from the station but do you think I could find it? Of course not! I ended up walking for a half- hour before I stopped to ask where I was.

Naturally, I had walked in the opposite direction and was told to just go back to the station and go the other way. But somehow, I became hopelessly, completely, utterly lost! I could not even find the railway station and it’s bloody huge!

I walked down street after street and didn’t see a soul. God only knows where I was. I ended up seeing a tram line in the distance and headed for that. I hopped on a tram that said it was going to Mariahilfer — I recognised this as the street our hotel was in. I could not believe I was 4 tram stops away from the station.

I jumped out at the station and still couldn’t find my way! I have completely lost my innate sense of direction! Completely! I blame the anaesthetic I had in July. (He was a Russian anaesthetist!) I think I have been lost in every place I’ve been so far. I have given up finding my way from the station to our lodgings even when it’s only 200 metres away because I have been lost every single time. I have always been appointed navigator because I have never been lost anywhere in the world until that operation!

Relief washed over me as I entered our hotel through the revolving doors, and I have stayed put ever since, only venturing to the café downstairs for a bowl of soup. Hopefully, I have lost some weight!

Off to Prague tomorrow!