Traveling: May 2018

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Vienna Spring 2018 - Part 1

Surprise Trip To Vienna

Thursday - May 10th 2018

Nearly each year Claudia and I hike to Lake Tappenkar and this year was no exception. Once we arrived at the parking lot from where the hiking path starts, we were a little bit surprised that there were hardly any cars. At first we really didn't care about that, but along the way we didn't come across many people. Granted, it was early in the hiking season, but the weather was actually quite good. After an hour we realized why there weren't any other people, because there was still plenty of snow on top of the mountain which blocked the way to the lake. Since it got a little bit dangerous, we decided to return. Back at parking lot we saw a sign that indicated that the season starts on June 1st. We could have saved a lot of time, if we just saw the sign when we left the car. Since we were a little bit frustrated with the whole situation, we spantaneously booked a hotel in Vienna for the weekend.

Jägersee

Hiking

Since we still had to pack our luggage, we didn't arrive in Vienna before the evening. After we unloaded our stuff and checked in, we headed into the city for dinner at Veggiezz, a new vegan restaurant in town. There we also enjoyed a couple of cocktails until we returned to the hotel

Dinner at Veggiezz

Monday, 14 May 2018

Vienna Spring 2018 - Part 2

Vienna

Friday - May 11th 2018

After we got up, we took the tram into the city and went to Starbucks for coffee. Most of the morning we spent with shopping and for lunch we stopped at our favourite Chinese buffet restaurant called Xu's Cooking. In the afternoon we did more shopping until it was time for some drinks at the Hard Rock Cafe. For dinner we went to Swing Kitchen and back at the hotel we spent the rest of the evening at the hotel bar.

Vienna

Lunch at Xu's Cooking

Hard Rock Cafe Vienna

Saturday - May 12th 2018

Breakfast was again at Starbucks and after some more shopping we had dinner at Veggiezz again. Afterwards we returned to the hotel and drove back to Salzburg.

Lunch at Veggiezz

Sunday, 13 May 2018

Ljubljana 2018 - Part 1

Going To Ljubljana

Friday - April 20th 2018

Since Claudia and I hadn't been away from home since London, except for a night in Munich, we decided to go to Ljublijana for a much needed long weekend break. We got up early packed our stuff and soon we hit the road towards Slovenia. On the way to Ljubljana we stopped at Lake Bled. There we hiked to Castle Bled, but the line to get into the castle was too long and so we just did a short walk along the lake. Since there wasn't anything else to do, we hit the road again and 45 minutes later we arrived in Ljubljana.

Lake Bled

Castle Bled

Lake Bled

Our modern hotel named Cityhotel was conveniently located near the Old Town but due to construction zones it took us a while to find it. After we finally found the entrance to the hotel's parking garage, we checked in. We got a nice room facing the courtyard of the hotel and that meant that it was very quiet. Once we unpacked our luggage, we headed into the inner city and were surprised how lovely the Old Town of Ljubljana was. Basically the whole inner city is a pedestrian zone filled with restaurants and lovely bars.

Cityhotel Ljubljana

Our Room

View from our Room

Cathedral

Old Town

Cathedral

Old Town

At a nearby marketplace there was a food festival going on and needless to say we had to get a beer. To our surprise there were also many vegan options and so we tried a delicious strawberry cake. Later we just strolled around the old town until we found a nice bar next to the river Ljubljanica. There we got another drink and then we went back to the hotel to refresh a bit before we headed out again for dinner at Loving Hut. Afterwards we got ice cream and had another drink at a lovely bar in the Old Town.