Vienna: The First Day

Last week was our class trip to Vienna (I keep wanting to type "Wien" instead of "Vienna", so apologies in advance, they are the same city). Anyway, the trip started out just fine, we caught our train at our little, one-horse train station and were on our way to Neumarkt-Kalhalm, where we would switch trains. We knew we only had eight minutes to make the change, but we figured it was a small station and we would have no trouble. Well, when we get there we find out our next train is delayed for an hour. The delay was due to someone not getting off the tracks in time and the tracks needed to be cleaned up (didn't want to imagine what exactly this meant). This meant that we would miss all of our next connections. So we got on our train and took an alternate route. Our last train was a double-decker train, quite comfortable, which is good, because that was a two-hour trip. 

We made it to Vienna a couple hours later than we planned, but no worries. We checked into our hostel, and then wandered along Mariahilfer Straße, which is the main shopping street in Wien. We also visited the Museum Quarter. Later the evening we went to a pizzeria run by Italians, which meant that the pizza was absolutely amazing!! We each ordered a large pizza, and even though it was a very thin crust, that is still a lot of pizza! Our rooms in the hostel were on the top floor, which meant climbing 105 stairs (yes, I counted)! That was good exercise...maybe a bit more than I wanted :)  More coming soon, with pictures!