{"id":1735,"date":"2017-10-13T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T15:52:13","slug":"vienna-and-melk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/13\/vienna-and-melk\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna and Melk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Budapest, the next stop was Vienna, Austria.  Vienna is the capital and largest city in Austria, with about 1\/4 of the country&#8217;s population.  <\/p>\n<p>We opted for the walking tour &#8220;Vienna Close Up&#8221; rather than the included bus tour.  We rode the subway into central Vienna and then spent about 3 hours walking around with a guide.  It was nice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/ViennaChurch.jpg\" alt=\"Church\" width=500\/><br \/>\nHere is the largest cathedral in Austria.  Too ornate for my taste.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Giselle.jpg\" alt=\"Opera\" width=500\/><br \/>\nHere is a sign for the ballet that is playing right now in the main opera house.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Jew.jpg\" alt=\"Jew\" width=500\/><br \/>\nThis was part of a holocaust memorial.  Look closely and you can see an old jewish man with a long beard, sprawled out scrubbing the floor.  The barbed wire was added later because people passing by thought it was just a bench to sit on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Balcony.jpg\" alt=\"Balcony\" width=500\/><br \/>\nAnd here is Gisele sitting on our balcony watching the Austrian countryside pass by.<\/p>\n<p>The next day (today) we visited Melk Abby, a very large abby, in fact a UNESCO World Heritage site.  The abby has been around since about the year 1100, but the current building was constructed in the 1700s and renovated in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Abby.jpeg\" alt=\"Abby\" width=500\/><\/p>\n<p>Next stop:  An excursion into Salzburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Budapest, the next stop was Vienna, Austria. Vienna is the capital and largest city in Austria, with about 1\/4 of the country&#8217;s population. We opted for the walking tour &#8220;Vienna Close Up&#8221; rather than the included bus tour. We rode the subway into central Vienna and then spent about 3 hours walking around with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}