Rachel In Wien

Innsbruck, Bodensee, Liechtenstein and Füssen

2010-06-19T12:31:00.001-07:00

Hallstat and Salzburg

2010-06-19T11:56:00.000-07:00

Vienna is great

2010-06-10T00:45:00.000-07:00

The other day the Wiener Philharmoniker gave a really good concert in the Schönbrunn Palace. It was awesome and free, and that´s why it was really really crowed!! But as everything the austrians do, the organization was great, there were such a lot trains in the underground to bring everybody home without any stress although the sound was not good because uphill it was almost imposible to hear the concert.
Here there is the link to youtube where you can se a part of the concert where the Philharmoniker was playing the Imperial March of Star Wars and I think something like aa potpourri of Star Wars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgAzphrkXB4

Kraków

2010-03-30T04:05:00.001-07:00

Berlin

2010-03-22T13:16:00.000-07:00

Stockholm, a great city

2010-02-23T00:57:00.000-08:00

I was in Stockholm last weekend, and it was a nice trip but in the wrong time. It hadn´t been as cold as this weekend since the year 86, so it was pretty difficult to walk and enjoy the wonderful city. It was covered of snow, in the way you could not difference between the sidewalk and the road. But afterall it was really beautiful and I enjoyed a lot.

Darmstadt

2010-02-09T02:07:00.000-08:00

Heidelberg

2010-02-08T01:51:00.000-08:00

Frankfurt am Main

2010-02-07T01:24:00.000-08:00

An awesome place to eat crepès

2010-02-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

In this place they only served crepés, sweet and no sweet. It is a tiny place and I don´t know the name, but for sure I should come back and taste more ;-)

Ice Skating in the Rathaus in Vienna

2010-01-30T05:35:00.001-08:00

Cafe Central

2010-01-30T05:33:00.001-08:00

TU Ball 2010

2010-01-28T15:40:00.000-08:00

Prague, a great weekend

2010-01-24T09:48:00.000-08:00

Prague

2010-01-21T08:02:00.001-08:00

Tomorrow I´m going to Prague with some friends, I wish the weather will be better than in Vienna, at least I hope that it won´t snow or rain. I don´t know what we have to visit, just we will walk and discover all the beautiful things in the city. Someone told me that is more beautiful than Vienna but I don´t know yet, in a few days I will upload the photos and everybody could decide for themselves.

Schönbrunn and its Christmas Market

2009-12-13T04:20:00.000-08:00

Wiener Staatsoper

2009-12-07T13:59:00.000-08:00

Various

2009-12-06T13:50:00.000-08:00

Comic&Film

2009-12-06T13:27:00.000-08:00

Krampus Festival - Gresten

2009-12-05T13:02:00.000-08:00

A good week

2009-11-30T04:44:00.001-08:00

Visit to the Zoo

2009-11-30T01:09:00.000-08:00

Österreich (1) - Spanien (5)

2009-11-18T23:30:00.000-08:00

I was in the football match between Austria and Spanin, as everybody thought Spanin won, but the first goal was for the Austrians, and the fans were really prouded about it, but after two minutes their happiness was over becuase Cesc Fabregas scored a goal, and the Austrians were very angry with the few Spanish in the Stadium. Most of the Spanish guys were Erasmus in Vienna and also from the countries near Austria, it was really funny.

Also we met Manolo "el del bombo", the musician that always goes with the Spanish team in all the matches, it was a pretty funny night.

Christmas Markets

2009-11-15T04:51:00.001-08:00

Klosterneuburg Monastery

2009-11-14T05:02:00.000-08:00

Christmas Markets

2009-11-13T08:46:00.000-08:00

Today is the first day for some of the Christmas markets in Vienna, and I was walking around to see what they offer. The ones which had opened today are really small, at least the two I´ve visited, and most of them offer typical sweets and of course I couldn´t resist the tentation and I bought the one you can see in the photo. It is really big, and it costed me 2,30€ (this is the cheapest) and it tastes really good, it is filled with Vainilla, something strange but it´s not that bad.

Martinigansl Dinner

2009-11-12T11:07:00.000-08:00

Linz & Mauthausen

2009-11-08T08:53:00.000-08:00

Linz, the European Capital of Culture 2009

Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria. It is located in t henorth center of Austria.
The main street "Landestrasse" leads form the "Blumauerplatz" to the main squere. In the middle of this square the high "Pestsäule" of Plague Column, was built to remenber the people who died in the plague epidemics.
Near the castle, the oldest Austrian church is located: Saint Martins church, it was built during early medieval Carolingian times.

The new cathedral of Linz, known as the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was begun in 1855 and in 1924 was finished. With 20.000 seats, this cathedral is the largests, but not the highest, churchi in Austria. It is not the highest because in the Austro-Hungarian times, no building was allowed to be taller thant the South Tower of the St.Stephen´s Cathedral in Vienna

Here are some of the photos I took in the Concentration Camp of Mauthausen. It was not really a funny visit for me and maybe I would prefer not going there, but well I went and I saw things I couldn´t imagine before.

Mauthausen-Gusen Nazi concentration camp where located near the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the city of Linz.By the summer of 1940, the Mauthausen-Gusen had become one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-controlled Europe^. Apart from the four main sub-camps at Mauthausen and nearby Gusen, more than 50 sub-camps, located throughout Austria and southern Germany, used the inmates as slave labour.In January 1945, the camps, directed from the central office in Mauthausen, contained roughly 85,000 inmates. The death toll remains unknown, although most sources place it between 122,766 and 320,000 for the entire complex.

The marzipans have arrived in Vienna !!!

2009-11-07T06:59:00.001-08:00

Yes, all you can see in this photo is made of marzipan. Unbelievable, isn´t it?? Well I saw this bakery window yesterday and I didn´t take the photo, so today I returned to take it and prove that I wasn´t liying about a marzipan´s hedgehog. It really cute. There are also crocodriles and sandwiches or "Wurst" made of marzipan. And there are cake in cats and dogs shape!! It is amaizing but there are really expensive, one piece of each cost around 4,50€ o 3,90€. And it is a real pity to eat them..

Wien, Stephandom Quarter

2009-11-06T14:11:00.000-08:00

Zentralfriedhof - Central Cemetery of Vienna

2009-11-01T06:21:00.001-08:00

Today I´ve gone to the Central Cemetery of Vienna. It is the Austrian largest burial ground, containing two and a half million graves, was opened in 1874 on the city´s southern outskirts. the central section includes graves of artists, composers, architects, writers and local politicians. The cemetery contains a vast array of funerary monuments varying from the humble to the bombastic, paying tribute to the city´s enduring obsesion with death.

Map of the Cemetery

The cemetery is really large and I think I would come back another day, but I´ll wait until spring to go and spend there all the morning walking and visiting all the monuments and graves of famous people.

Dr-Karl-Lueger-Kirche
Max Hegele, a pupil of Otto Wagner, designed this church dedicated to Vienna´s mayor in 1907-10

Interior of the chuch

Johannes Brahms grave. 1833–1897

Johann Strauss 1825–1899

Franz Schubert 1797–1828

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
This is not the real grave because nobody knows really where Mozart was buried. It is said that he was buried somewher in Vienna´s St.Marx cemetery, but the exact location is unknown.

The cemetery is really nice and the graves are marvellous. I took a lot of photos but it is not possible to upload all of them. I´ll come back and I´ll go to the Old Jewish cemetery, the islamic and protestant area and I´ll look for the monument to the Dead of World War I.

What to eat in a cold day in Vienna

2009-11-01T06:11:00.000-08:00

Today is a really cold day here, in Vienna, I think that the good weather has gone for the rest of the year and we will have to dress like onions, layers and layers of clothes. Maybe is 1 degree or 2 but it seems to be less. And what do you eat if you are really cold, well you can eat a hot soup or just this, white beans with red pepper and onion. It is my mother´s receipe, and it´s really good.

The Swam Lake

2009-10-31T15:52:00.000-07:00

Today I´ve gone to the Oper to see the Swam Lake of Tchaikovsky. It was really beautiful and I spent a really good time with my friends here in Vienna. I took a lot of photos of the inside of the Oper because the first time I went I had no time to waste taking photos, but today we´d got seats not standing places, but really I can´t be sat because if I were sitting I couldn´t see anything. The seats were not the best ones but al least were cheap, just 8 euros.

Details of the city

2009-10-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

Austria National Day

2009-10-26T10:01:00.000-07:00

This is what I ate after the visit to the Parliament and the Hofburg. It´s pasta with vegetables and a fried egg.

One of the door in the Hofburg

The State Hall in the National Library

Papyrus Museum. Just a curious thing in this museum

Outside the Parlament

Inside the Parlament. Detail of the staircase

National Council Chamber

Details on the columns of the Historic Chamber

Budapest

2009-10-26T02:08:00.000-07:00

The Opera of Budapest

Detail in one of the houses in the city of Pest

Palace around the Castle Hill

Detail in a hotel in the city center of Pest

The Hungarian Parliament in the night

Different details of the buildings in Pest

This cost me like 1700 HUF

The Heroe´s Square

A wine fountain in the Labyrinth Caves

Different photos of the district of Castle Hill

It is said between the students that before the exams you have to touch the horse ... if you want to have luck and pass all your exams

This is the desserts we ate in the all you can eat and drink restaurant in Budapest. The chocolate cake was really good.

Cool Club in a building not restored in Budapest

Hungary National day, was celebrated with some show of the armament of the army and also very old vehicles

Reconstructed Gothic window of the Church of St Mary Magdalene

In the train Station

Chicken Basket

2009-10-21T12:52:00.001-07:00

Bratislava

2009-10-17T13:47:00.001-07:00

Today we have gone to Bratislava, it is a very small city, lovely but too small. I think we compared it with Vienna so it es too small for us now. We have visit the Castle that it is suppose it is the most important place to visit in Bratislava, and then we just have been walking through the city. Just here there are some of the photos we take, just with my camera, because we seemed to be Japanish we were taking photos to everything and such a lot of times.

Spanish National Day

2009-10-12T11:27:00.000-07:00

Today is the Spanish National Day, and here in Vienna all the Spanish people has been invited to the Embassy, just to celebrate it properly. It was really good and all of us ate a lot of "Jamón" and drink some Spanish Wine. We were talking with the ambassador and we realise that there are pretty much spanish people living in Vienna. That´s not bad, you know, everywhere you go you would see a Spanish.

Loco Bar

2009-10-08T11:41:00.001-07:00

My best friends here in Vienna

Vienna Night Run

2009-10-07T08:18:00.000-07:00

I ran in the Vienna Night Run, well more than run I walked most of the 5 km. I´m old for this without practice so, I was the last of the group, but I don´t mind. And after the Run, we went to the Centimeter to have something for dinner, and you can see what we ate, jejeje.

NaturalHistorisches Museum

2009-10-05T10:38:00.000-07:00

This is one of the dogs of Maria Theresa

The are some animal alive in the Vivarium, just few fishes and reptiles, like chameleon and seahorses.

Spaziergang im Wienerwald

2009-10-04T09:23:00.000-07:00

Lange Nacht der Museen

2009-10-03T15:30:00.000-07:00

Nothing can be compare to a home made meal

2009-10-03T04:35:00.000-07:00

This meal tastes really really good, even some mates of the floor ask me what it was because it smells really good, jajaj.

City Walk

2009-10-02T10:55:00.000-07:00

Hunderwasser Haus

2009-10-02T10:46:00.000-07:00

A walk in the city

2009-09-30T10:57:00.001-07:00

29th September

2009-09-29T11:24:00.000-07:00

Party in the Ride Club

2009-09-28T23:43:00.000-07:00

Hi, this night I´ve been in the ride club, it´s a club where all the erasmus go to dance. The music is not my favourite, but I went there with some friends, and it was really full of erasmus students from Spain.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum

2009-09-27T10:33:00.000-07:00

Today Sunday, everybody was sleeping or having a rest due to the party yesterday in the Ottakringer Braueri. I went to the party also, but I´ve came back home very early, I was pretty tired because of the day trip so I decided to go home and sleep.

Today I wake up early, well at 9:30, and do all the housework, and then after having lunch I went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Art Museum of Viena.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum was originally planned and very outset conceived as a museum unlite the Hermitage or the Louvre that were designed and used as palaces. It´s not only the architecture of the building and the decorations of its interior every one of the collections that are display in it are outstanding, like the Egyptian and near easter collection, Greek and Roman Antiquies, Kunstkammer ( collection of Sculpture and Decorative Arts) were some of the Habsburg treasuries are displayed, the Picture Gallery divided into German, Dutch, and Flemisch and Italian, Spanish and French Art, and the Coin Cabinet.

Detail in the wall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Natural History Museum, it´s placed in front of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the building is exactly the same at leats in the external view.

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Detail of a streetlight in the entrance of the Museum

Views from the Vestibule into the domed Cupola Hall

Staircase with Canova´s "Theseus" group and Munkácsy´s ceilling painting

Detail of the staircase

Detail of the celling

Another detail of the staircase

Detail of the columns

Detail of the celling in the corridor

Detail of the Cupola

This is what you can see through the windows of the Museum

Detail of the Bassano Room

Entrance to the Egyptian Collection

Roman Collection

I think that it´s a good place to spend the day, or just a half day. I´ve been there around 2 hours and I think I saw the most importantan Masterpieces of the Museum, but I´m sure that I´ll come back with my father when he comes to visit me.

A day in Seegrotte & Neusiedlersee

2009-09-26T10:12:00.000-07:00

This was the last trip with the SoS Programme, by the way I feel relax about not to have to eat fast or not eat because the meeting hour was very earlier, but in the other hand I feel sad because maybe I´m not goingo to see all those people I meet in this two weeks, but well I suppose we´ll plan something for the weekends.

This is what I have for my lunch today, it was Catfish, is really tasty, and easy to eat because it´s got few bones so it´s very easy, jjajaj.

Wiener Rathaus

2009-09-25T08:27:00.000-07:00

This is the "Rathaus", it´s wonderfull.

This is the interior of the UniWien, we have been here this morning because we need to know how many statues of women were there, because we were playing in a Wien Rally.

Landgut Cobenzl & Bauergolf

2009-09-24T07:50:00.000-07:00

This a "collage" of a few photos of the animals in the Bauergolf Farm where we´ve been playing Bauergolf.

UNO City & Donau Park

2009-09-23T10:31:00.000-07:00

UNO City

DONAUTURM

This is what I have for my lunch today, a Currywurst with Mustard and bread, it´s not that bad, but well maybe it was the place, I´ll taste in other places.

Ottakringer Braueri

2009-09-22T09:55:00.000-07:00

Today we´ve been in a guide tour in the oldest Brauerie in Vienna it was opened in 1837. The tour was in german so there were some technical aspects that I can´t understand properly but more or less we manage to know what he was talking about. After the visit we were allow to taste 4 diferents kinds of Ottakringer beer, but there were at least 12 sorts of beer to taste, just impossible to taste every. But well I took a Rot Zwickl, and it was really good just with a sweet flavour and then a drank an Innstadt Original hell, ein weissbier, it was also good.

And this Saturday evening there is a party in the braueri, inside for the students of the TUWien, so after the day trip surely we will go together to the party.

And after the beers, we went to eat a Kebab in a Turkish Restaurant. They made they own bread and they give bring for each one a big piece of it without increasing your bill

Teschniches Museum Wien

2009-09-21T13:20:00.001-07:00

This is a "Mini Computer", jajajja

A Faraday cage or Faraday shield

All the information about this Museum at : http://www.tmw.at

Enigma Machine

2009-09-21T09:25:00.000-07:00

For information about what is the Enigma Machine and for what was used just check on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

Sunday afternoon

2009-09-20T14:15:00.000-07:00

This morning I was tired, but this afternoon my roommate, another friend and I went for a beer or and icecream, and well we´ve got both of them, jajaj.

A Sunday meal at home

2009-09-20T06:04:00.000-07:00

Today I´ve been all the morning at home, studing and having a rest after the trip yesterday. And I´ve been so hungry that I decided to prepare for myself what you can see en the photo below. Jaja, is a big dish of rice, turkey and some vegetables, it was really good.

Day´s Trip - Melk & Dürstein

2009-09-19T10:42:00.000-07:00

Dürstein

In the Danube´s shore

Lunch in the Alten Presshaus Restaurant. This is a typical dessert made of plums.

An Struddel made of Apricots and Cheese, very tasty.

This is a dish of cheese that our mates take for desserts, one of them could finished it. It looks very tasty also.

This is the meal I had for Lunch, actually I don´t know exactly what if made of, but it has egg, potatoes, meat or sausages and the tipical "Sauerkrat"

The gardes of the Melk abbey. It´s formed for two style gardes one Baroque and the other English. There are some trees of 250 years old. It´s really wonderfull and peacefull.

A big library inside the Melk Abbey. There are 1888 manuscripts, 750 incunabula, 1700 works from the 16th, 4500 from the 17th, and 18000 from the 18th century, aproximately 100.000 volumes in total.

If you want to know more about Melk: http://www.stiftmelk.at/englisch/index.html

Schönbrunn

2009-09-18T13:23:00.000-07:00

A visit to the Parlament

2009-09-17T13:57:00.000-07:00

This is not the Parlament, this is the back part of the Rathaus of Vienna, I mean that this is the Vienna´s Council.

This is the entrance to the Parlament, here we were waiting for all of the students that are in the SoS Programme. It´s really good because you can see everything by your own, but with this programme we have all the guide tour included, and it´s really good to know more about this country!!!

Here is the place where the big Parlamentary Act take place. I mean that this room is only use when it´s an important act.

And here is the entrance to the famous Hotel Sacher, where it´s suppose to have the best SacherTorte of whole Vienna. I haven´t tasted here, but I can assure you that here is more expensive than in other nearest Café we´ve found, and it was a really good cake. I think I have to come back and taste another kind of cakes, like that one with mango cream and chocolate mousse.

Nachtmarkt + Belvedere Palace

2009-09-16T12:52:00.000-07:00

Some photos of the Nachtsmarkt, a really good market. I think it´s the best I´ve ever seen. I´m going to bring everbody who comes here to visit me, to eat a really good Kebab for only 3€. And I´m pretty sure taht they will we enchanted with all of these little shops and all the different kinds of food you can get here. It´s really a fantastic place to spend, I think, the whole day.

The staircase of the Upper Belvedere Palace

The ceiling of one of the rooms of the Upper Belvedere Palace, it´s really nice and it´s worth to go if you love "The Kiss" of Gustav Klimt

Gardens of the Belvedere Palace

Karlskirche

Otto Wagner Station in Karlsplatz

SoS Programme, city bike tours!!!

2009-09-15T12:30:00.000-07:00

The Hundertwasser Haus

Karlskirche

Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Pavillion

Albertina

Hotel Sacher, jjjejje

Höfburg

Where I think, Mozart lived for at least 10 years.

This is very funny, the bars in the shore of the Danubio

Rathaus

And the other famous University in Vienna. Here all of the buildings are fantastic, you have no time to do all the photos you want to do.

Karlskirche

2009-09-14T13:06:00.000-07:00

This is Karlskirche, the church that it´s near my University, I haven´t made it a photo until this afternoon. I have all the year to do photos, jajjjej.

Tortilla de Patata!! We can do it in Viena

2009-09-13T13:45:00.000-07:00

My roommate and I have made a Tortilla de Patata with a salad, and it was really good, it wasn´t that bad!!! We´ve made two tortillas and she has eaten one for herself and then she was really full jejjej, but she really likes the tortilla, it was very nice to cook for someone not just really be alone all the day in the kitchen.

A Sunday in Vienna

2009-09-13T11:38:00.000-07:00

A night at the Opera

2009-09-12T01:02:00.000-07:00

How much do you pay for a night at the opera to see the Magic Flaute?? Well surely everybody thinks that it is too expensive but if you buy the standup places it´s just 4 or 3€, so we bought that tickets and it wasn´t so bad. Here there are some photos.

I couldn´t take more photos because it was crowed, I think it wasn´t any place left and I don´t know if the "crisis" exits here because there are some places that costs more or less 240 euros.

But well on saturday I think I´m going again to see Mademe Butterfly, so I´ll try to take more pictures.

Noodles!!!!

2009-09-10T08:44:00.000-07:00

Really good!! a plate of noodles with meat and vegetables and a good flavour, that´s important I think ( in german ich denke)

A really good Kebab

2009-09-09T13:29:00.001-07:00

This is how I look before eating a really big and tasty Kebab, and it only costs me 3€ and the beer it wasn´t that bad, but not as good as Hoffbrau, you know what I mean my dear!!!
I have to do some checking on the internet about the lectures here and I´ve been a bit confused because I don´t know what to do!!!. Well I have to correct some mistakes that I continue doing in my spoken english so I have to be really concentrate about what I want to say and it makes me to be very tired. I missed to speak Spanish, because here also with the Spanish people I´m talking in English..., and sometime I can remenber words in Spanish, it´s a realle mess.

Ohh well today at the german course I´ve learnt how to say Ohh my God, it is said Ohh Gott, you see?? It´s very similar but take care with the pronuntiation please!! Jajajja. Well I´m just going to the bed and tomorrow more.

This night was the Karaoke party for Erasmus, but I didn´t go because I don´t want that it will begin to rain because I haven´t bought an umbrella. So good night and tomorrow I´ll tell you how was the party!! The Spanish people go everywhere, you know.

Second day in German Course

2009-09-08T07:35:00.000-07:00

Well today have been the second day of the German course, I mean that actually I can´t understand the teacher because she speaks too fast for me, so I´ve got my dictionary and I have to check everything on it. But today has been better than yesterday. Yesterday it was a really really mess, and after that we´ve been having a Wiener Melange in a really lovely place in Karlsplatz, it was a sunny day so we´ve been outside in deckchair in the garden, really good. Well you know the coffee here is expensive but it is good.

This afternoon we are going to something like a market, just because some of them want to buy stuff from another erasmus that are returning to their countries, so I´ll tell you what it is about.

Now in Vienna!!

2009-09-03T23:21:00.000-07:00

Hey guys!!, I´m in Vienna but for the moment I haven´t visited nothing only a big shopping center with a big big Ikea, where I bougtht everything for my living here, jajaj. Today I will go to do some necessary papers for the University and for the Austrian State. It´s quite strange but I have to do it or I´ll be in Spain earlier than I´m thinking in.

The Nachtsmarkt seems to be very interesting, quite a lot of bars and restaurants in a small place like that, and so many food varieties it´s great!!. There´s a lot to see and do and everything.

Madame Tussauds

2009-08-14T12:00:00.000-07:00

This time in London I have to return to Madame Tussauds, because of there is a new wax figure of one of my favourites actors, everybody knows that I´m a big fan of Johnny Depp, and of course I had a photographic session with my idol. Now I have a lot of photos of him, I know that it´s not the real one but he is quite perfect.

It was very very difficult to make a photo os the figure alone, there were a queue to have just a few seconds with the figure but I think it was merely impossible to take a good photo. There were another was figure I like, it was Daniel Craig´s one. I think it is welldone as you can see in the picture below.
This phote was taken in Maja´s honour, jejej, I know you "love" this man. I hope Jp doesn't want to kill me after that.

Well, this was my third time at the museum and i can assure you that the more I go the more I love this museum. if you have the opportunity to go, just don´t hesitate and do it, it´s a bit expensive but it worth it.
Thanks to Alexis and his family to spend the day with us.

A day in Camden Town

2009-08-13T01:33:00.000-07:00

I´ve been in Camden few times, but this time has been the best. They have restored the Stables and it´s great!! all that horse sculptures are so beatiful and made Camden a good place to spend all the day. Also the new food stall, you can eat everything from everywhere, for just a big hamburger or a typical chinesse plate, it is great. It´s a pity that I have to come back, jeje, because the restoration isn´t finished yet, what a pity!!! ;)

Stables Market entrance

A view of the new Camden Markets

Back from London

2009-08-12T20:00:00.000-07:00