Traveling: Hard Rock Cafe

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Vienna Spring 2025 - Part 2

Vienna

Saturday - June 21st 2025

Our second day started with breakfast at the hotel and then we took the tram into the city. Our first stop was Starbucks followed by Superfood Deli, where we got some iced coffees and smoothies to be prepared for a day of shopping at Mariahilfer Straße. For lunch we stopped at Xu's Cooking, a vegetarian Chinese buffet restaurant, before returning to the hotel to relax a bit, since it got pretty warm.

Starbucks

Mariahilfer Strasse

Smoothies

Xu's Cooking

In the afternoon we headed to Prater, one of the oldest amusement parks in the world. There a new rollercoaster had just opened and of course I had to try it. Wiener Lopping was a lot of fun, although it could have been a little bit longer. Then we just took a walk through the fun fair before taking the metro back into the inner city. There we tried an awful vegetarian burger at Hab's Burger, but luckily we stopped at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner a couple of minutes later. We had a couple of drinks before ordering nachos to share. Later on the way back to the hotel we got ice cream and back in our rooms we called it a day and watched TV.

Wiener Looping

Vienna Prater

Hab's Burger

Hard Rock Cafe

Ice Cream

St. Stephen's Cathedral

Vienna State Opera

Vienna

Returning Home

Sunday - June 22nd 2025

Today we slept in and once we got up, we had breakfast. Then we checked out and hit the road towards Salzburg. Back home we had a quick lunch and enjoyed a quiet last day of our holiday.

Sunday, 11 May 2025

New York City 2025 - Part 3

High Line Park

Sunday - May 4th 2025

Thanks to the jetlag our first full day in New York City started pretty early. Once we were ready for the day, we headed to Cafe Aroma just next to the hotel for breakfast. Cafe Aroma offered a wide selection of bagels and pastries and so we got bagels with cream cheese and iced coffees. For today we planned to walk along the High Line to Chelsea. So after breakfast we were on our way to Hudson Yards, where we first checked out the amazing sctucture called The Vessel before it was time for our walk to Chelsea. The High Line is an elevated park created on the former New York Central Railroad on the West Side of Manhattan. Along the way we left the High Line for a quick stop at Little Island at Pier 55, a man made park on an artificial island. Back at the High Line we finished our walk in the Meatpacking District, where we stopped at Starbucks for an iced coffee.

Hotel Lobby

Our Hotel

Cafe Aroma

Breakfast

New York City

Hudson Yards

The Vessel

High Line

Hudson Yards

High Line

New York City

High Line

New York City

Little Island

New York City

New Jersey

Little Island

New York City

High Line

Chelsea

Starbucks Reserve

Chelsea

Since it was already noon, we got hungry and decided to get something to eat at Chelsea Market. Luckily the market and the small restaurants are all inside, because it started to rain. For lunch we stopped at an Asian noodle restaurant and ordered probably the most spicy noodle dishes ever. Afterwards we just strolled through the market and bought some souvenirs. Later we took an uber to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum located at Pier 86 along the Hudson River. The museum showcases old fighter planes onboard the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier from World War II. The highligh was definitely the Enterprise, the prototype of the Space Shuttle, but also the Concorde and the submarine USS Growler. In the late afternoon we returned to the hotel and while the inlaws took a rest, Claudia and I headed down to the bar and got a couple of beers. Later we had a dinner reservation at the Hard Rock Cafe. After another Hard Rock Cafe visit in the books, we bought some sweets at Target before heading back to the hotel and calling it a day in front of the TV watching Friends.