🚴 Palaces, Pedals & Pastries: Biking Vienna and Slovakian Hot Chocolate (Days 5-6)

https://www.highparktravel.com/ViennaThe AMALea arrived in Vienna early in the morning in the midst of clearing fog on Day 5. With a full day and evening planned in the city of Johan Strauss, known for great composers, beautiful architecture, and museums I was particularly excited for this day. Once again we had chosen a bike tour to see the city, the most active of all levels offered by AMA. This was a busy bike tour through winding streets, on and off designated bike paths with many stops to allow the group remain together. Our guides were fantastic as AMA provided a lecturer and a rear rider to watch over us while crossing roads. We biked to and past many iconic landmarks of Vienna such as the Opera House, Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs, St. Stephen’s Cathedral just to name a few. A real treat was riding by the Austrian University of Economics to view the unique architecture built around 2010 as part of the college’s expansion. It currently has 200,000 students with the cost for most European students of 44 Euro per year! American’s can attend for just 1750 Euro for an entire year.ViennaThe AMALea arrived in Vienna early in the morning in the midst of clearing fog on Day 5. With a full day and evening planned in the city of Johan Strauss, known for great composers, beautiful architecture, and museums I was particularly excited for this day. Once again we had chosen a bike tour to see the city, the most active of all levels offered by AMA. This was a busy bike tour through winding streets, on and off designated bike paths with many stops to allow the group remain together. Our guides were fantastic as AMA provided a lecturer and a rear rider to watch over us while crossing roads. We biked to and past many iconic landmarks of Vienna such as the Opera House, Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs, St. Stephen’s Cathedral just to name a few. A real treat was riding by the Austrian University of Economics to view the unique architecture built around 2010 as part of the college’s expansion. It currently has 200,000 students with the cost for most European students of 44 Euro per year! American’s can attend for just 1750 Euro for an entire year. Known as the Coronation City, where 16 kings and queens were crowned in the church of St. Martin’s Cathedral. I must confess that to go from Vienna to Bratislava was anticlimactic which isn’t a fair comparison I know. Few cities in the world compare to the beauty of Vienna. Having not spent time with the other two couples in the group we decided to do the gentle walking tour with them. It lasted about 1.5 hours and was informative but we only went into one church, it was mostly an overview tour. The general consensus in our group was that the walking tours provided a lot of explanation about the exterior of buildings and history, but we would have liked to see more of the interiors. As these are one day stopovers I understand the limited time constraints of the tours. https://www.highparktravel.com/podcast