Parks!

Living in NYC some of my favorite parts of the city were the parks, Central Park, Riverside Park, even Morningside Park so long as it is broad daylight...I think green spaces in large cities are what makes those cities livable and I'm glad that in planning these cities people thought to design parks (especially New York, thank you Frederick Law Olmsted).

When I moved to Vienna, I knew that they also take their green spaces seriously, and while this city wasn't planned in the way New York was, they did leave places for parks as areas expanded, and I have several close to me, so I got out and explored them while enjoying the perfect weather today.

I started here, which is just down the street

Abandoned cemetery among the trees...check.  I'm actually taking this picture 

through a fence between the trees 

Flowers!  These are some of the first i'd seen, considering we had snow last Friday, I'll take it.

I then walked up the hill to Türkenschanzpark, it's a ways up...but again...lovely park, large playground, lots and lots of families playing, people laying out on blankets just enjoying the afternoon.

This is towards the middle of the park, it's an observation tour and is open certain weekends throughout the year for people to go up in and look out, I'm sure the view up there is amazing.  The first weekend is in the middle of April, so I'll have to go back at some point and check it out.

Thankfully my nice fold up park blanket made it into one of my suitcases, so I will surely be getting that out soon and heading to the park to read and enjoy the nice weather.  We haven't sprung forward yet, so it's still getting dark fairly early in the evenings.  It's just past 6pm here now, and the sun has set and lights are coming on in the streets already.  I'm looking forward to it staying lighter a bit later soon.

Another spring event to look forward to, I booked a flight to London at the end of April to visit Sarah Beth!  Yay!  I'm so excited to go see her and where she's living now.  I haven't been to London since high school, so I'm excited to see the city as well :)

I hope you're also enjoying nice weather on this St. Patrick's Day!