Brian wanted a day of rest from traveling, so he stayed home with the boys while I took my parents to Vienna for sightseeing. We walked up the 343 steps of the south tower of St. Stephens Cathedral. It is a spiral, stone stair that begins about eight feet in diameter and ends about 6 feet in diameter. One gets dizzy ascending or descending; and it’s two-way traffic, so it’s really hard to maneuver on the narrow inner part of the tread.
We then walked the Kranier pederstrian mall to the opera house and on to the Burggarten. We walked from the gate of the Hofburg through the courtyards and into the area where the Venna Boys Coir performs an on past the Spanish Riding School into the Michelerplatz where the Roman ruins are displayed. We had a wonderful lunch at the Chamaleon restaurant, bought Lipizzaner torte to bring home, and drove around the ring road before steering homeward.
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