Our Lovely Vienna Neighborhood

After a rocky start in Vienna, we are thoroughly appreciating our lovely Vienna neighborhood. We love the Airbnb room we are staying in here. It's almost like a little apartment as we have our own private kitchen. And, the bathroom, shower, and laundry shared with another guest are just down the hallway. Our space is in the basement of a stately, old Vienna house. We would love a tour of the main and second floors, but we've only run into our host once in the last four days. And, he's not even technically our Airbnb host. He's our host's father. It seems our host is running an Airbnb out of the basement of her childhood home. That's fine with us. It's a wonderful place to stay, and our communication with her via the internet has been easy and prompt. 

Stately, old Vienna house we're staying in the basement of

The backyard of the house. The lower two windows give good light to our room. 

A different wide angle view of the backyard

Our comfortable bed with fancy decor

The little kitchen area in our room

Spring has sprung on the streets of Vienna. There are flowers and leafing trees lining the streets that are filled with beautifully styled, old Viennese homes. We've enjoyed wandering around the neighborhood and area parks. Here are some things we've come across: 

The flowering, tree-lined streets of our fancy, old-school Vienna neighborhood

This fancy, old residence looks kind of castle-like

We found a very green park nearby

A playground on top of a hill in the park

I'm not sure what age group this swing is for, but it is so comfortable

View of Vienna on a foggy morning atop the hill in the park

We found another playground with this giant slide

And, more swings

And, this fancy contraption that looks like it allows children to pump water through this Rube Goldberg type structure and engineer mud dams along the way 

We were flummoxed by these. Benches in the middle of a field? For sunbathing? For skateboard tricks? For exercise purposes? 

Brandon has now studied the Vienna transit system extensively, and we've learned that our neighborhood is well connected to the tram system which can take us to the subway. The light rail train for passengers only comes every hour, so this must be a quieter neighborhood, similar to Altona where we stayed in Melbourne. 

A train running through the neighborhood hauling at least 2 km length of double-stacked cars 

We don't mind being in a quieter, less hip area. We're happy to have two grocery stores in easy walking distance and picturesque surroundings to enjoy. 

We've been doing a lot of our own cooking in Vienna and trying the different foods that the grocery stores have to offer. Here's an inexpensive, delicious triple chocolate mousse that comes in a fancy glass container.