What else to do in Vienna aside from concerts and sightseeing?

Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Kel

In article om,
says...

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

How much time do you have? Budapest can be reached in two hours from
Vienna.
--

Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Alfred Molon wrote:

In article om,
says...

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

How much time do you have? Budapest can be reached in two hours from
Vienna.

Two hours? Does that include parking? The train is around 3.5 hours.

--
David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

On 5 Jun 2006 13:58:01 -0700, wrote:
om

Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Concerts and sightseeing are so good in Wien I can't imagine having time for
much of anything else.


(change Arabic number to Roman numeral to email)

The small town of Eisenstadt, is a short ride from the Südbahnhof bus
station.

There is the Prater fairground, The UN headquarters, cruise on the
Danube, hang out at the Stadtpark, The Haus De Musik (where you can
shadow conduct the Vienna Philhamonic), Volksoper, numerous houses for
German theatre etc. If you like churches, St. Peter's near the
Cathedral, strongly recommended.

R



wrote:
Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Kel

Following up to :

Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Tons of museums and art galleries. But I suppose that's in the taking
photos section. :-)

Get a boat trip down the Danube to Bratislava.
Up river is Dürnstein and one of Austria's major wine regions.

Visit the open-air "Naschmarkt" food market.

Wander along the Donauinsel, if the weather's nice.

There are dozens of bars - the most infamous region is probably the
"Bermuda Triangle". You can imagine why it got its name.
http://www.tiscover.at/at/guide/8534...ts/intern.html

Swimming , squash, try the mineral baths in Oberlaa on the south edge of
the city (right at the very end of the tram line 67)
http://www.oberlaa.at

A day trip out to Neusiedlersee. It's normally shallow enough to be able to
walk right across the middle. I wouldn't recommend it though ;-)
--
Tim C.

schrieb:
Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Kel

There are some art musuems, the art gallery in the Belvedere is
interesting, works of Klimt and others. And there's the Stephansdom of
course.

T.

schrieb:

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

have a look at www.wien.info including
http://www.wien.info/article.asp?IDArticle=13214

imho there is enough "sightseeing" for a week, especially
if you should be just somehow interested in arts and history.
In addition, the Museum of Natural History has plenty of
very remarkable objects (the presentation does not match
the quality of many of them) and to me Wienna Zoo was
almost as interesting as nearby Schönbrunn castle .....
(looks like I have seen to many castles over the last
few years ...)

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:33:52 GMT, "Lennart Petersen"
wrote:


skrev i meddelandet
ups.com...
Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Kel

A train excursion could be a suggestion.
Either the narrow gauge Mariazellerbahn (Wien west-St.Pölten-Mariazell)
or the rack and pinion train Schneebergbahn (Wien SO-Puchberg-Schneeberg
http://www.schneebergbahn.at/
find out schedules on
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en

I'd back up these recommendations as well, having done both.

Did the Scneebergbahn on a blazingly hot day, and it was deliciously
cool when I got to the top.



Keith, Bristol, UK

Email: usenet[dot]20[dot]keefy[at]spamgourmet[dot]com

This is a sp*mtrap, but I will get your mail!

wrote:
Hi group,

I am heading to Vienna next week and wonder what you did in the city
besides going to concert halls and taking pictures? Any nearby
city/town worth a go? Festivals? Any suggestion is welcomed. Thx!

Kel


There are some very nice coffee houses. Also, to meet the yuppie
generation go to the Wein & Co. wine bar in mid evening.

John Bermont
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