Vienna

Danube River Trip - Budapest / Bratislava / Vienna / Basilika Mondsee / Bike Ride / Melk / Passau / Regensburg / Nuremberg / Karlovy-Vary / Prague

Vienna is a large and beautiful city. I noticed that people were working outside to maintain the cleanliness of the city. It was the architecture that struck me most profoundly in Vienna. “Magnificent” is the best way to describe this city of composers and music, where the music of Mozart and Strauss are performed for tourists. I went to hear classical music one night while my boat was docked at Vienna.

St. Stephen's Cathedral is a perfect example of gothic architecture in the city.

I rode one of the world’s largest Ferris wheels (Riesenrad), built in 1897, that took me several hundred feet into the sky. The wheel is 200 feet in diameter and holds 30 gondolas.