Vienna, Day 3

Walking down the outdoor stalls in the Naschmarkt

The Naschmarkt has many kinds of goodies. It seems to go on for blocks.

We attended an apfelstrudel demonstration at the Schonbrunn Palace bakery.

The expert baker making the strudel dough.

Watching and eating our servings of strudel.

I was asked to come up and help and I was provided with a hat and apron.

My Strudelshow Diploma

We took a tour of Schonbrunn Palace, a summer palace for Austrian royalty, including Marie Teresia mentioned in a previous post.

Roger and Jeanne Minert helping us figure out the subway, tram and train systems.  We were grateful for their skills.

Roger showed us this flak tower, one of several used to defend against Allied air raids in WWII.  Those who shot the guns from the circular corners were teenage boys.  The tower was also used as an air raid shelter.

We found a place where Mozart had lived.

Plaques like these are found in Vienna in front of the apartments where Jews were removed by the Germans.

The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (also called the silent library) to remember the 65,000 Austrian Jews that were killed in the Holocaust. A very sobering place.

After touring the city this day, the Minert's put us safely on the bus to the airport so we could return to the south of France.