Beautiful Vienna

I have heard two different things about Vienna. One is that it is a wonderful vibrant city with much to offer (but expensive). The other is that it is an empty shell of a city milking the tourist trade with it's bygone trappings of it's glory days. I have not been in Vienna long. While there is a healthy tourism industry in Vienna I can comfortably say that whoever made the later statement is full of crap. Vienna is awesome. We would like to return someday to see it properly.

The only real negative thing I can say about Vienna during our short stay is that it was raining. I mean RAINING. There was flooding like they had not had in 50 years. One art gallery was being forced to evacuate many of their priceless painting for fear of water damage.

We didn't really see any sign of the flooding ourselves and were basically unaffected except for all of the rain.

The Hofburg Palace was amazing. This photo is the steps in the Armory Museum within the Palace.