During my 10 days of travelling in Vienna, Prague, and Munich....
10 new foods I tried:
-Spatzel
-Chocolate-covered gingerbread
-Trdelnik (traditional Czech pastry)
-Hot wine
-Kumquats
-Deutches Butterkase cheese
-Beer
-Chili Chocolate
-Marzipan
-Edam cheese
10 things I paid to see:
-Freud Museum (Vienna)
-Schonbrunn Imperial Palace (Vienna)
-Munich Art Museum
-and nothing else!
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10 things I saw for free:
-Museum of Natural History (Vienna)
-Belvedere (Vienna)
-Imperial Gardens (Vienna)
-Charles Bridge (Prague)
-World's Largest Metronome (Prague)
-Lenin Wall (Prague)
-Dachau Concentration Camp (Munich)
-Neuchwanstein Castle (Fussen, Germany)
-the Glockenspiel, the largest cuckoo clock in the world (Munich)
-The English gardens, which had a Japanese Tea House, a Greek temple, and a Chinese building (Munich)
10 Churches I visited:
-St. Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna)
-Our Lady of Victory, where the Infant Jesus of Prague is (Prague)
-St. Nicholas Cathedral (Prague)
-Tyn Cathedral (Prague)
-St. Vitus' Cathedral (Prague)
-St. Peter's (Munich)
-St. Michael's Church (Munich)
-Asam Church (Munich)
-unknown, but beautiful Church in Munich
-memorial Churches at Dachau
10 things I bought:
-Empress Elizabeth tissues at the Schonbrunn Palace
-hand-painted real Easter egg at Easter Market in Vienna
-matted photograph of the river in Prague
-another hand-painted egg at the Easter Market in Prague
-the memoirs of the last surviving member of the Valkyrie plot from the bookstore at Dachau
-a beer stein
-a postcard of Neuchwanstein Castle
-a cute box to keep my eggs in so they don't break
-a WC sign
-another hand-painted egg from a store in Munich (one from every city on 10-day!)
10 things I learned:
-blue monsters will attack you if you step on the grass in Vienna
-moon rocks have fallen in Kansas and are now in museums in Austria
-Prague has the most bipolar weather of any city in the world
-Easter markets in Vienna are better than their counterparts in Prague
-if you have empty seats at your table at a restaurant in Prague, other people might just come and sit in them
-100 Czech crowns is the equivalent of 4 euros
-people in Munich don't know what Easter markets are
-the Discount Bakery in Munich has the best doughnuts ever
-the best places to go to the bathroom in Europe are inside museums and at restaurants, because they are free
-going through tunnels while on a train makes your ears hurt
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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