VIENNA, 1. Day: Do not pay attention to the Ferris wheel….

[picasaView album='WIEN01' directview]…something you only distracts, as it has often proved your time is far too short.

Just as it Reinhard Fendrich in his song “You have already Vienna at night geseh'n” has described, We also felt. Our time was just too short, so we limited ourselves to the center on the 1st District. Vienna has finally seen us. 🙂 Als Österreicher eigentlich eine Schande, to have never been in the federal capital. Than the usual VIENNA week was in school at, came a few cultural ignoramuses in the class the bright idea, prefer to organize a sports week. Logical! What you should already 1 Make week in Vienna, yes sure is extremely boring! The idiots!

Sure, it may well be quite funny, 1 Tennis Week, or to make the Surfschein, but I'd rather do on holiday in the south, to hold in place on the Attersee evening always in the same pub a adolescent binge drinking. Ok, funny it was safe, VIENNA, but would be cool but became much funnier especially.

After I had to stare at for years with horror wide open mouths and eyes, I've never been to as Austria Vienna Vienna, I have created this situation finally out of the world.

From 15. – 18.October was finally announced a city break.
Thanks collected Membershipmeilen the flight was virtually nothing booked. The hotel room we got the weekend special at the Intercontinental with free upgrade if available. Of course, I was still allowed to act as a courier for a company and take a thermal imaging camera for a construction site in Schwechat. But as hand luggage went with the loose.
Armed with a rolling suitcase and a small Trolli it was Thursday morning at -1 ° C frosty go. We checked in at the terminal 2 in Frankfurt and had breakfast at a little something yellow Scots. We dawdled around as long as, that we got to the control of persons in a traffic jam, and the boarding date for 15min missed. Somehow a strange feeling, if one is already addressed and expected at the gate with name. Once we were in the bus, went to the door, and we went to the apron where the FlyNiki waiting for us.

After about 1 hour flight we landed in light snow in Schwechat. Checking out was fast on the stage, and after the transfer of the thermal imaging camera, we took a taxi into town.
Always higher, ornate and ostentatious facades were the more we moved towards the city center. The Intercontinental is a very austere from the outside, downright ugly box, as if Erich Honecker had sold a block of very cheap to Vienna. Somehow it seems almost insulting considering the surrounding beautiful houses with pretty facades.

Luckily, it looks very different from the inside. As befits a 5-star hotel, offers us a bell on Taxi, which goes directly against the rain-protected door, opens the door and grabs our bags out of the cab and enters them into the foyer immediately. This is so, how it also presents a top-class hotel: Very large, very good sense of space, deep carpets, A general shade of red gives the whole ambience of a certain severity, even subliminal importance of the whole device.

I asked at the counter then, if a room upgrade is free for, the nice man then smiled smugly and said,, that I would have good luck, it would be a Upupupgrade to a suite at the Club area with private check-in.

He squeezed my puzzled appearance a smart card in the hand, with which I was then in the elevator activate the select button for the 12th floor.
Up there on the top floor of the box we could check in at the Club Lounge and relaxing refresh ourselves at the buffet, to the suite was ready.
The small apartment on time was one floor down and greeted us with a very spacious living room with its own flat screen TV on the wall and separated by a large double sliding door bedchamber. This of course also had its own TV stand on the dresser.

When we were looking straight, knock at the door and a waiter brought us a welcome note from the hotel manager personally: A 0,375 bottle of champagne and chocolates he, fresh fruit. Somehow we felt very important and cherishes ago.
After we launched with champagne and rested, We were on our way, to the 1. Explore District. Since it was quite windy and still raining, We could give us a screen from the doorman and ventured into Vienna by night. The first address, we wanted to control, Wool was the line, to Figlmüller , where there should be sensational pulp. By impressive façade walls we walked past the city park. The strong wind threatened often times evert the screen, but with elegant responses we could well avoid the treacherous air flow.
Arrived in the wool line, we already saw a long line BEFORE the entrance door. CRAP! But I'm smart, I immediately called there on my cell phone and asked for a table for free 2 People. Forget it! There is a meeting in Vienna and are booked over the weekend, but I would like to try in the next 50m Bäckerstraße, because there would be a Figlmüller.
This tip we gladly accepted and then to let the pushy queue are left, to pitch in Baker Street. But there also was waiting for a queue at the bar, what led me to another call. Maybe I can because even a table tel. Reserve. There, the friendly gentleman said “Ois is ooosgebucht, oba kemmans nua hea, wenns nua zwaaa Läädln sääds, kriags eh schnöll to Blooz. Hungry is no kana with us ham gonga” In good German: All booked up, however 2 People quickly get a place and it is also no one went home hungry.

In fact, we only had to wait at the bar feels 5min, had to the waiter in a vaulted cellar assigned a place. Just afloat were the 2 large chips on the square, on all sides at least 1 cm hanging outside the box. These delicious little bird and cucumber salad.

Saturated we left the temple and made schnitzel on us, to run back to the hotel.