There were a few options to choose to choose from today so Glen and I had elected to go to Schonbrun Palace, that's the place that Andre Rieu uses as a backdrop for his concerts. This was the Summer Palace of the Habsberg family which ruled much of Europe and particularly Austria for over 500 years ending in 1918. It was probably built in the country way back when, but now it is just part of Vienna.
They didn't hold back when they built and decorated their palaces , extremely elaborate, and as our guide said this morning, if it looks like gold, it really is, the rooms just glow with gold. We saw their winter palace in Vienna yesterday.
There is a lot of information given out when on these excursions and I have a lot of trouble taking it all in. The stories of Emperor Franz Jozef and his wife Empress Sisi (Elizabeth) are fascinating.
We are sitting in the lounge watching the blue Danube flowing by at the moment.
Technology is another mystery that we keep having to find reasons as to why things go wrong or won't work but we eventually seem to find ways around it - sometimes this has taken days so this can explain intermittent communications.
It is now evening and a few hours since I typed the previous paragraphs. Since then, Glen and I went for a walk along the river and across the bridge nearby, returning we found that a few travelers were in the top deck pool, which is a hot spa pool, so we joined them, but was it hot,I called it the lobster pot, but it was nice for a little while. The weather , today has been fine and improved as the day went on, it was nice to see the sun which has been absent for a few days.
The group is settling in and are quite friendly. There was one man who was traveling alone who had to go home yesterday, he had some health problems and probably shouldn't have come in the first place.
Tonight we sail at 11:30 so we will go to sleep in Vienna and wake up in Durnstein, what a way to travel, everybody does the work for you, it's lovely.
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