Cowboy1968

Budapest.. last night in one of the "ruins/ garden pubs" near the synagogue. This morning was less glorious..

gpaisie

Vienna - the 3rd Man Tour. We are big fans of the movie and if you are, too, it is a great time. We did not do the 'sewer' tour due to time.
Budapest - hiking up Gellert Hill; the shoes memorial along the Danube; palacsinta and coffee on Andrassy ut.

basingstoke2

In Vienna. the J&L Lobmeyr crystal and glass museum is well worth seeking out for its extraordinary collection if you like that sort of thing. Lobmeyr makes in the opinion of many the finest Austrian crystal and is one of the oldest such companies in Austria dating back to the 1820s. The museum is on the 3rd floor of their retail store in the pedestrian shopping area.

clausar

Best memory... i 've studied in Vienna, and i often go back..
My best memory though is the Cafe Hawelka where i used to drink my Melange and read my newspaper...
An unforgettable old and intelectual Cafe where the owner, a sweet old lady used to command clients on where to sit, in order to have more people sitted... an awesome oportunity to enjoy conversations with total strangers......
And late in the evening they used to offer you the unsold " Buchteln" mmmm an unforgettable viennese delicacy....

Ozarksbill

This thread on memories seems to have revived in July.

Best memories? Budapest: Danube Bend river cruise to Szentendre passing by the spectacular Parliament building with lunch in Visegrad.

Vienna: a Vienna Woods trip with a stop at Mayerling manor and then to spa town of Baden with dinner at a wine restaurant in old town of Grumpoldskirchen.

annhig

Vienna: a Vienna Woods trip with a stop at Mayerling manor and then to spa town of Baden with dinner at a wine restaurant in old town of Grumpoldskirchen.>>

We stayed in Gumpoldskirchen [no R I think] at the end of our stay in Austria having discovered earlier in our trip that there was going to be a wine festival there. we stayed 3 nights, touring the area south of vienna in the day, and going back to enjoy the festival in the evening.

it was definitely one of the highlights of our stay.

jentrav

Drinking the young, seasonal wine, sturm at the Prater on a beautiful day in October.
Taking the tram up to the top of the hill at Khalenburg and walking back to the city.

Aduchamp1

As our train approached the station in Budapest, the power suddenly failed, leaving us about three hundred yards from the terminal. For some reason, we paid for 1st class tickets and for that a conductor appeared and told us there were cabs waiting for us to take us wherever we going. (We had to pay of course.)

It was like a WWII movie, as we carried our luggage over the tracks in the dark toward the headlights of the cabs. There was a doctor with his trophy wife, who not only had to carry her own bags but in high heels across the rails, gravel, and railroad ties. You could see the silhouettes of the passengers in the other cars wondering what was occuring.
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In Vienna I enjoyed going to the cafe Freud frequented and then to the one Adler went to. I like to be fair.