Vienna In The Early Hours

In the morning, we took a brief overview tour of Vienna via Viking. It is a wonderful city filled with beautiful buildings and traditions. It is also a dense city with quite a bit of traffic and graffiti. The graffiti surprised me. According to our guide, graffiti is a protected form of art.

I feel like a got a decent overview of Vienna but I probably need to go back. It has museums that are legendary. We did visit the absolutely stunning Saint Stephen’s Cathedral . It is gothic and powerful looking. It is also extremely crowded inside. Everyone wants to snap a few photos. Fortunately, the church charges $7 Euros per person if you want to see the center portion of the church. We did and it was a wise decision. Most people are too frugal to do so. We were were able to escape the feeling of being shoulder to shoulder.

For us, the highlight was seeing the famous ferris wheel that was used in the 1949 Orson Welles movie The Third Man. It’s located in an outer area of Vienna and still has the eerie feeling captured in the movie. No one in Vienna knows about the movie The Sound of Music (filmed in Prague for budget reasons) but everyone knows about The Third Man.