I got up at 6 AM and had breakfast in the hotel. Not sure what I ate. It was a little on the sweet side, as well as yellow and chilled. I didn't want to ask in case it had eggs in it -- the mere thought of eggs would've made me nauseous. I chased it down with grapefruit juice.
Afterwards I hunted around for a pharmacy so I could buy toiletries (didn't bring them 'cause the TSA might trash 'em). Since I'm in a ritzy tourist area, they were 40 euros. Pricey.
Before I bought them, I took a picture of Saint Mary's Church, which is close to my hotel:
I showered at the hotel, then walked to Hofburg Palace:
I was going to take a tour, but they didn't start till the afternoon. Maybe I would come back.
I walked around some more, trying to find a store to buy a fußball jersey of Austria's national team. Couldn't fine one and by then it was lunchtime. There was a nearby outdoor food market. I got a falafel wrap and a can of Coke.
Next, I took a cab and asked him to drop me off at the nearest InterSport store. He deposited me in front of a store called Sports Direct, which used to be an InterSport. They didn't have any Austria football jerseys.
I found a taxi stand, but the cab driver never heard of InterSport, so I walked around and took another cab to my hotel. There, I wrote down the addresses of InterSport and the Sigmund Freud Museum.
I took a taxi to the latter:
And here's a close-up of the plaque with overhead flags:
The museum is where he practiced and I think lived at one time.
From there I took a cab to a Puma store because they Austria's football jerseys. They were a bit pricey, so I went to a different Sports Direct from earlier in the afternoon and bought the jersey I was looking for. It was on sale for 36 euros, I believe.
Taking all those taxies was cutting into my cash, so I tried walking back to the hotel. I got lost, which isn't that hard because Vienna streets are serpentine and maze-like. After about an hour, I gave up when I wound up at the main train station, which I'll go to tomorrow morning for my trip to Frankfurt.
Before I hopped in the cab, I took these two pictures. I thought this was cute at a small supermarket where I bought a clementine:
And here's St. Charles Church:
Back at the hotel I took a 20-minute nap. For dinner I went to an Italian restaurant around the corner and got spaghetti with meat sauce, and black Earl Grey tea. It was delicious!
After that, I saw this store front for a crystal joint. Pretty funny -- bedazzled household products:
At the hotel I counted my money. Out of the €1,000 I brought with me from the States, I'd spent €320 in Vienna. Yikes!!! Gonna have to take it easy in Frankfurt. Fortunately, the train station is short walk to the hotel.
Around 8 PM, I headed out to have my first Gelato. Make sense since Italy is south of here.
On my way back to the hotel, this made me smirk. No tobacco, just straight nicotine!
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