Guten morgen!
We are happily breakfasting in our new Flow House apartment...Jeffrey is eating leftover schnitzel and Evie and I had cereal. I think we slept 10 hours last night- Evie closer to 12 hours! Today we will tour around downtown and buy train tickets for Salzburg, where we'll head tomorrow until Tuesday. Appropriate spinning and singing atop the hills of Austria will ensue (although we'll avoid the touristy "Sound of Music" tour).
Yesterday's Turkenschanz Park visit was delightful, and our visit to the local SPAR Market for staples was followed by 1 euro scoops of gelato at a nearby place called LIMONCELLO. It felt like a blurry, lost day yesterday because of jetlag but we are rearing to go now. Evie woke up and got excited all over again about her new toys. Hugh, Alyssa...you guys are the bomb!
I'm adding to your list below:
ReplyDelete1. the aquarium is pretty cool. It's housed in an old WWII bunker, and goes up way more stories than I was comfortable with (heights issue)
2. the Liptauer cheese at Billa. You can get it anywhere, and Billa is usually a bit lower-end than places like Spar Gourmet, but it's by far the best we ever found. Look in the deli case. Nom nom nom.
3. Hugh doesn't agree, but I think the best pig knee is at the market at the bottom of the stairs by the subway station (cross Peter Jordan Strasse and keep going downhill, towards the mountains, where you can see the monastary thing in the distance. At the bottom of the stairs, cross Krottenbackstrasse, and the street you will be on - as if it were a continuation of the stairs is my beloved Oberkirchgasse, an AWESOME shopping street, if you're into high-end women's clothes.) Anyway...walk about a block, and on the right side is a nice fruit/veggie market. They also have an Italian cheese store, and a great deli/takeout place that sells a Stelze. For cheap. And then you can take it home and devour it all alone without anyone watching and wondering how you ate the think all by yourself.
How do I edit my comments? I got mixed up. The market is on the RIGHT side of the street. But you would have figured that out...
ReplyDeleteSubway station? WHICH subway station???
ReplyDeleteSorry, I keep missing my bus/tram stops by one exit and having to walk back. That has happened twice at the same stop - Wahringerstrauss Volksoper something or other...
Anyway... The pool at Wahringer park is AWESOME. Am
Nd now we are in Salzburg staying at a 3-star hotel with a 5 star view of the city. I had braised beef cheeks and it was so good I cleaned the plate. More on Salzburg later...about to dig into some apfelstrudel. Bye.
...so, it was a VERSION of apfelstrudel. It was really 3 cross section slices of Apple that were "donut-ized", ie. Dippedmin a donut like batter, fried and sprinkled in cinnamon and sugar. The apples were a bit firmer than expected, but still as delicious as that sounds.
ReplyDeleteSo the reason we have so much time to blog is because Evie is asleep in our room and we are sitting in the lobby 50' away eating apple donuts and drinking bier. We snagged the baby monitor you left behind and it is proving a good idea. More later.
So Google "Sonnbergplatz." That's the market at the bottom of the big stairs. The "subway station" is actually an elevated and/or underground train station; not one of the real "U" subway lines you use. Just remember Krottenbachstrasse, more or less directly north of you a few blocks, and you'll find it.
ReplyDeleteBut definitely our favorite market (the Sonnbergplatz market is a close second) is the Kutschkermarkt on Waehringer Strasse. It kicks BUTT. It's the one with the Turks Hugh told you about (there are actually two Turks; keep walking past the first ones to get to the fun ones).
Glad Salzburg is treating you well. I want to eat what you ate. We had grilled cheese tonight at the Hamiltons.
No fire today, just business as usual.
You could also Google a great, old-school toy store on Waehringer Strasse called "Lebensraum," which is kind of a creepy name if you're into Nazi history, but the toys are awesome. Mostly wooden and expensive. The owner guy speaks English.
Time to go lesson plan...12 hours and counting.
You guys are killing me. Now I miss the Sorianos and Ottakringer. Depriving a guy of either one seems unfair in my book.
ReplyDeleteAlso on the U-bahn tip, we didn't start taking the 37A to Spittelau (the green line) until we'd been there at least a month, but that is often the fastest way to get places (like the always delicious Swedenplatz). The only problem is that the 37A only runs weekdays and less often then the 40A, but the green line generally goes to much better places than the U6.