Traveling: May 2024

Wednesday 22 May 2024

Parndorf & Vienna 2024 - Part 1

Designer Outlet Parndorf

Thursday - May 16th 2024

Since we still had a couple of days off from work, we decided to spend some time in Vienna. At first we wanted to do a bike tour, but unfortunately the weather wasn't very promising. We started our trip to Vienna in Parndorf, just a few kilometres south of Austria's capital city, for shopping at the McArthurGlen Designer Outlet. Once we arrived, we checked in to Pannonia Tower, our hotel for the night, where we stayed already two years ago. Our room wasn't ready yet and so we headed to the outlet to get something to eat. At Nordsee we both got a plant based tuna sandwich. Before we started our shopping spree we had to get an iced coffee at Starbucks.

Pannonia Tower Hotel

Designer Outlet

Lunch at Nordsee

Designer Outlet

Starbucks

Designer Outlet

Later we got drinks at Cafe Sacher and then it was time to return to the hotel, because the room was ready. On the way we stopped at Dunkin' Donuts for a treat. Our room was nice and we had a great view over the outlet and could even see Lake Neusiedl on the horizon. After we dropped off our purchases and relaxed a bit, we headed back to the outlet to get dinner at Burger King. Then we just strolled through the shops and spent the rest of the evening watching TV in our room.

Cafe Sacher

Aperol Spritz

Dunkin' Donuts

Our Room

View from our Room

Designer Outlet

Dinner at Burger King

Tuesday 21 May 2024

Parndorf & Vienna 2024 - Part 2

Vienna

Friday - May 17th 2024

After breakfast we checked out and drove from Parndorf to Vienna. Like most of the time when we are in Vienna we stayed at the Austria Trend Hotel Doppio. Since we arrived in the morning our room wasn't ready yet. so we took the tram into the inner city to visit the Sigmund Freud Museum. The museum is located at his former apartment, where he also practiced until he hed to flee from Nazi Germany. Freud's apartment is also known to be the place where psychoanalysis was born. After an intersting tour through the museum, we got a coffee at a nearby coffee house.

Breakfast

Vienna

Sigmund Freud Museum

Coffee House

Coffee Break

After our coffee break we just strolled around the neighbourhood before taking a walk to the famous Schnitzel Restaurant Figlmüller. There we had a reservation in the early afternoon. Claudia and I both got the plant based schnitzel, which was delicious. Unfortunately after our late lunch it started to rain, but since our room was ready by now, we took the tram back to the hotel. In the evening we headed back to the inner city to have dinner and get some drinks at the Hard Rock Cafe.

Vienna

Figlmüller

Plant Based Schnitzel at Figlmüller

Hard Rock Cafe

Monday 20 May 2024

Parndorf & Vienna 2024 - Part 3

Vienna

Saturday - May 18th 2024

Our day started with breakfast in the hotel and then we took the tram into the city, where we wanted to do some shopping at Vienna's main shopping street. First we stopped at Starbucks for iced coffee and later we had to take a break at a nice wine bar. After all the shopping we had lunch at Swing Kitchen and before returned to hotel to drop off our shopping bags we got ice cream at Bortolotti.

Breakfast

Austria Trend Hotel Doppio

Starbucks

Wine Break

Lunch

In the afternoon we spent some time at Vienna's famous amusement park Prater. There we went to Schweizerhaus for beer and potatoe pancakes. Afterwards we took a train ride through the Prater park with its forest and then we just strolled through the amusement park before heading back into the city. For dinner we went to the Hard Rock Cafe again and had a couple of drinks as well.