Traveler Notes - Chapter 13 Trip To Austria 2

Next, we slowly go to the largest Nashmarkt market in the city, which is located near the Theater, you can take the metro line U4, the station is Kettenbruckenhasse, it works for six days, Sunday is a day off. From six in the morning until half-past seven in the evening. On Saturdays from six in the morning until six in the evening. Sometimes there are fleas. I bought something there, for example, enameled dishes.

This market sells products from almost all over the world, there are Persian rice, saffron, Turkish rice, coffee, Japanese wasabi, as well as other goodies from the UAE, China, Korea, Southern Europe. Huge grapes like an apple. Even our eastern bazaars are inferior to the diversity of Nashmarkt.

Immediately on huge carts are sold no less huge heads of cheese, two meters in diameter. One hundred grams costs about 10 Evro The cheese is very smelly but it also has a delicious taste.

Evening falls, on the table lies an invitation from the Governor of Vienna. All participants in the training courses are invited to a concert and a small party in the city hall. The orchestra is playing. The governor makes a speech. Then the music sounds. Students stand with glasses in their hands. Others dance the Viennese waltz, who knows how. Professors and teachers are slowly having some kind of small talk. An hour and a half time and that are it, we slowly disperse among the hostels.

The invitation from the governor sounds amazing, but in fact, this is a normal event. It is likely that to recoup the contents of the city hall, all kinds of such gatherings take place in it, and the promotion of the city is good for tourism.
for visiting.

In the hostel on the information board, there was an announcement that you can choose a route for a free, tourist, bus trip for three days. There were several directions – in different lands. Lower Austria and Styria or Upper Austria and Burgenland. This was different from a regular tourist trip in that the choice was not so much of historical monuments, but of how many scientific centers. Therefore, everyone chose their direction.

And in the morning in front of the hostel, there is a large two-story bus. Our trip has begun.

First, we go to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey in the village of the same name, located in the southern part of the famous Vienna Forest, only about 40 minutes from the capital. The Catholic monastery itself was built in the 12th century. A beautiful building, sometimes you can hear the monastery choral singing. But we examined it only from the outside. According to the guide, in the period from 1938 to 1945 the abbey was taken from the monks and passed under the control of the National Socialists. Some fascist headquarters were located in the building, another was struck by the fact that after the war the SS people were given only 3-4 years of correctional labor for their crimes.

The Wachau Valley is amazing, everything is green, there is a lot of water all around, green hills, stone towers of the times of feudalism, with traces of bullet holes, amazing local history museums are visible. And then, souvenir shops. Here is a visit to Gumpoldskirchen-Pfaffstetten-Feslau. Small cities or towns succeed each other. They glimpse and here’s another basement, after the heat of summer the pleasant coolness cools, in the back, there are huge, three-meter in diameter, wine barrels.

The walls of the basement are covered with moss, they are visibly depressed coins of different countries, students follow the example and also attach moments from their countries to them. Tourism, however.

Wrapping up in another small city, the name, which is simply eroded by an abundance of information, we dine in a small family restaurant. Chunks of brown bread are in wooden vases; it is very tasty. Lunch is free, but with a limited menu, which goes above the norm, it is already paid from the pocket of a student. Each slice of fragrant and fragrant black bread over the norm costs 1.5 euros. And in your head, so you pretend that the loaf in Vienna costs from 9 to 11 euros. Buns, like the Soviet “Kunts”, hollow inside, already cost three euros. Do not spoil. Baked chicken, Pantigammer, Kaiser, Stiegel beer and lovers of white wine.

We went further to the land of Styria, where a research center in the field of digital cartography was located, in the city of Graz, by the way, the now-famous American actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was born there.

We visited the main attraction of Graz – “Clock Tower”. There was a chic restaurant overlooking the city. Amazing place. We were received by the mayor with a sumptuous dinner, also such a tourist tradition. The tower itself stands on Mount Schlossberg. Known since the 13th century, the fortress on the mountain was destroyed by Napoleon’s troops, and the clock tower was left, it was a symbol of the city even then.

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