Vienna: Voted most beautiful city.

Writing is my form of therapy when i'm thinking about stuff. It helps to get the thoughts in my head out in front of me and gives me a certain sense of satisfaction that i dont have to keep it all inside. My mom sent me another huge box filled with sauces, pre mixes, soap and shampoo(huh?) and contact lens solution for my time in Graz! I never appreciated Lee Kum Kee so much in my life before this trip. I think this exchange has opened my eyes to all the things involved with living on my own. Things you never have to think about at home like laundry and cooking are a part of everyday life here but sometimes it feels strangely fulfilling to be able to do everything yourself. I can say i'm able to survive on my own but i'll admit the worst activity of all is ironing clothes. I hardly iron my clothes because you almost always have 2 layers on so the jacket doesnt need to be ironed. I'm trying to keep the costs down here but i'm beginning to run out of money D: Anyway my next trip is to Croatia where there is a fantastic beach. Yay! This is a very random post.

Now for some pictures of Vienna!

I was in Vienna 2 weeks ago and to me its the most beautiful city i've been to and has a whole lot of stuff to do but i only had 2 days there so i didn't do all that much. Except go to the zoo, and go shopping and sightseeing. :l Me and Jack stayed at Wendie's hostel for 2 nights in a sleeping bag and on the first night when we reached, as usual we got absolutely holanded(lost) because we missed the last metro and had to try and walk to take some night bus. At 2 am we gave up and ended up taking a cab there. haha. Well this is the next morning, city tour given courtesy of Wendie which was really good because we covered half the sights from the outside in about 2-3 hours!

1st stop, St Stephens Platz - Cathedral













Me, Jack and the monstrous building.


















Interior of Cathedral


















On the way to the rest of the sights around the old town area! Random statue which i didnt bother to find out the name. (After a while they all look the same)



































Hofburg winter palace. I didn't go to the summer palace due to a lack of time but im going for sure the next time i Vienna.









































Natural History Museum. Got to go back next time to check out some dinosaur bones. How cool is that. The art museum is directly opposite this building and is the exact mirror image of this museum!



















































City Hall.













In the metro! Its been so long since i've been travelling in a metro to get round places since Graz has no metro, only trams and buses. The public transport system is quite efficient here but the number of people is no match for the singapore rush hour. Not that i like rush hour in singapore.










After the city tour we went for lunch at the market which was near the asian supermarket. First time seeing so much asian food in a store. Amazing. I almost wanted to buy back a 2kg bottle of Lee Kum Kee oyster sauce. Hahah.


This is a picture of some of the food they have at the market, its like some appetizers with various vegetables with good stuffings. Nice stuff but i didn't buy to eat due to a tight budget constraint.





Lunch: 3 euro kebab + 1.20 euro JIA JIA LIANG TEH. shiok.













After lunch was straight to shopping in which the sneaker whore in me just had to go to the best sneaker store in Vienna!

This is the store, Stil Laden.

Nice layout and shoes but too much damage to spend on.



























So...


I bought a nike shoe key chain. 7 euro. haha.


Good stuff especially for those people who know what sneaker this is.








That more or less concluded the 1st day at Vienna! and we had tang yuen from the asian supermarket at night. Woohoo!