Monday, March 26, 2012

Saturday Part 2

These are all pictures from Saturday, basically everything minus the Easter Market photos from the previous post, although these pictures could have been taken anytime in the last week or so including today, we've had unbelievably gorgeous spring weather every day.

So after the first Easter market on Saturday towards the city center, I walked through the Hofburg and back around to the ring...
The Freyung passage, filled with shops

lots of people out enjoying the sunshine at Heldenplatz

the blossoming trees near the Rathaus


the Rathaus without the ice rink in front of it.  Apparently this space is almost always filled with something, so the one little green sign is about as bare as it gets.

Ok, so...now we fast forward to Schoenbrunn...after walking around the Easter market there for a bit, I decided to go around to the back of the Palace where all the gardens are and see how those are coming along since the last time we were over here it was still February and the statues hadn't even been uncovered yet.  Also, since I didn't have any major time constraints, I decided to walk up to the Gloriette and see what the view is like from up there.  

with the palace behind me, looking up at the Gloriette

almost there...



The view from the top

standing in the same spot, just zoomed in to see the Palace and the city more clearly

you can even see school up on the Kahlenberg from here!  

back down on the garden level, looking at the Palace over what will soon be lots of flowers.


off to the side of the Palace are some other gardens, where the flowers are already up

Spring has definitely sprung around here, although most flowers and trees are still not quite blossoming yet, but they will be very soon.  I'm back to reading today, but should hopefully have time to get back out to the park later this week and enjoy more of the weather!




1 comment:

Marilyn M square said...

I love this palace. I remember a private tour in 1965 with my sister Gayle and 3 year old niece Hollye. It was private because no one else came as early as we did!!