An amazing city at an amazing time of year - it was a well planned visit to colleagues and a celebration of my birthday. It is difficult to judge the impact on a french family of living in Vienna - but they certainly have a wonderful spacious inner city apartment with a roof terrace. We slept in their daughter's bedroom, in a small turret... I would have loved to have been born to the Austrian aristocracy over 100 years ago - this city has an amazing past and is sufficiently wealthy to protect it for future generations.
So it was no surprise to be totally impressed by the christmas markets - with their contrasts between the neo-gothic architecture and trees full of red hearts and snowmen... Visually it was breathtaking and there were all the other components of great christmas markets - the spicy smell of gluwein, smoky maroni burners, lots of sweets and lebkuchen stalls, some creative stalls with wonderful candles and lots of hats and scarves... and everywhere people meeting, chatting, drinking, eating, having fun, enjoying the season, all invigorated in the cold night air...I loved every minute and enjoyed the several markets we visited. Not sure whether I preferred the Jeager Tee over the Ingwer Punsch!
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