Sunday 24 June 2018
Sunday doesn't really need a mention as it was a rather cold and overcast day, so I didn't feel like going out. I had my music, reading, games and blog to occupy myself with.
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| My 'study' (the photo was taken later, on a sunny day, though) |
Monday 25 June 2018
The weather had improved quite a bit, so I ventured out on a walk into the city. I had downloaded a few caches on my GPS and thus went prepared. ;-)
I crossed Karlsplatz to search for a cache at the Otto Wagner Pavillions, but couldn't find it. Not that I put a lot of effort in, because on my own I always feel rather self conscious. Anyway, it wasn't until I got home that I discovered that the cache, Pavillons, had been disabled AFTER I had downloaded it on my GPS a few weeks ago! Teaches me to check regularly!
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| Fountain near the Staats-Oper |
Further down the road (the Opernring) I walked when I ran into Goethe. Oh well then, his bronze statue. There I asked some American women to take my photo and took theirs as well. They told me to hold Goethe's foot for good luck, which I did, of course. ;-) The poor man had one very shiny foot, so a lot of people must really believe this. As it also was a geocache I took the necessary pictures of it so I could answer the questions, and thus I had found my first cache in Austria! Hooray, earned my country souvenir as well. ;-)
#1965 - Das strahlende Denkmal / The radiating monument (earth cache)
From there I walked to the Neue Burg. This is the former imperial palace, built in the 13th century. The grounds are huge and there are many buildings and extensions. And, as in many cities, polluted by the vehicle exhausts, these buildings have also suffered and I can see many in Vienna that are being restored and/or the facades cleaned. Look at the various pictures of the palace:
The butterfly house (a bit bigger than the one on Bribie!)
On the next bit of walk I took pictures here and there and then arrived at the destination of my next geocache. This time a virtual one, which required me to send in a picture of myself and the 'cache'.
# 1966 - Die Wiener Hofburg/The Imperial Palace (virtual cache)
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| I always feel rather self conscious taking a selfie... |
And the next one was a traditional cache, but I really had to look for it. The description was quite clear, but there were too many gates and doors and the GPS is never very accurate near buildings. I did find it though and that was the main thing.
#1967 - Burgtor (cache)
The next bit of my walk took me outside the palace buildings back onto the ring road again. This part was called the Burgring and further down the Universitaetsring.
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| Museum of Natural History |
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| towers of the City Hall |
After a brief search for another geocache (which I couldn't find, so I left it) I entered the Volksgarten (public gardens belonging to the imperial palace) and found a nice spot for coffee and cake.
After a bit of a rest I made my way back through the buildings of the Neue Burg and Hofburg, all the while taking more pictures and the addition of another earth cache. In the pictures you can also see that there is a lot of gold used in the decorations on the buildings.
#1968 - Lapis Lazuli (earth cache)
Coming out on the other side of the palace buildings I find myself almost in the centre of the city again. At Michaelerplatz I walk past an interesting sunken area which appears to be an archaeological find, which dates partially back to Roman times and has been preserved in situ.
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| Catholic Church of St Michael |
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| Monument to commemorate victims of the plague |
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