dolce vita 2011: TAKE THAT WALTZ, take that waltz ...

Our today's waltz ...

The weather during night and the morning showed a different picture: RAIN and thunderstorms. The temperature fell from 35 to 18 degrees and everywhere the trees and the rain smells in such a fresh way ... simply brilliant.

Morning rain in Velden

So we start early our way to Vienna - there is no morning walk through the woods possible. The 350 km ride last slightly longer than expected because the heavy rain of Carinthia follows us almost until Vienna. In GUE's hometown the sun starts shining again - only for us!

After unpacking the luggage we face the drama - our dresses for the Saturday highlight are completely wrinkled up and an immediate ironing-session is necessary. Seda takes over this task under unhuman conditions. In the (excellent) hotel the ironing room is about 1 m2 big (!!!!). So the heat comes back - artificially!

Seda with weapon in the huge 1m2 ironing room

After all clothes are ready and prepared for the next day we start strolling around in the center of Vienna. Lovely weather, good atmosphere, good mood everywhere (especially after the best ice-cream in town).

We end up at the Rathausplatz - a big place where in summer Viennese people celebrate another tradition: a classical music film festival which is held every evening (when the weather is fine) after sunset. In front of the lord-mayers house a big screen shows interesting music films and the audience of about 2000 people can find place to sit and listen. Behind these open air arena a lot of restaurants have their booths selling excellent food and almost all Viennese people are meeting there when the weather is fine. The screen shows again the Easter Concert 2011 - Spring in Vienna - by the Wiener Symphoniker.

Finally we meet there with Esin, Murat, Cemre and Cansu who are on the way from Berlin to Cyprus!!! We planned first only to have a farewell breakfast on Sunday (we will report) but it worked out that we also could have some Kaesekrainer, Asian and sweet Austrian food together. Lovely!!! See the fotos ...