Vienna

For the 4^th of July this year we decided to take a quick trip to Vienna! Matt had been to Vienna once before many years ago. He had really good memories there and wanted to come back as an adult. Vienna is known for the beautiful Opera house, being the home of Mozart, cafés, and the yummy Sachertorte Cake. If you are traveling to Vienna, you must have a coffee and some Apfelstrudel at a famous coffee house. Vienna likes to claim the title of “coffee house capital of the world” and there are opulent coffee houses on every corner. I would recommend Café Central, Demel, and Café Sperl. You also must go to the Hotel Sacher-Wein and order the Sachertorte Cake at their beautiful café. The Hotel has carefully guarded the recipe for the Sachertorte since the 18^th century. The cake itself is a chocolate sponge cake with an apricot filling and chocolate icing. I do not usually loved chocolate with fruit fillings but this cake had just the perfect amount of apricot filling. It is so good! There are tons and tons of amazing museums that you could also spend days exploring. We never went to any of the museums there because we are a little museum-ed out at this point in the summer.

However, we did visit the Naschmarkt and I loved it! When I love something, I really love it and get kind of obsessive about that it. I listen to the same song on repeat until it starts to annoy the people around me (aka my husband). I love flowers, Italy, Siggi’s vanilla yogurt, Dairy Queen, Dolly Parton, Shauna Niequist and also open-air markets! I basically died over the amazingness of the Naschmarkt and it was easily one of my favorite things we saw there. Half of the pictures in this post are from the Naschmarkt. The Naschmarkt was just super abundant and filled with so much amazing fruit, olives, drinks, candies and flowers. Matt and I bought some Turkish delight and had the best time walking through the stands. You could really spend an entire afternoon there. I would definitely recommend having lunch at the Naschmarkt and then giving yourself sometime to walk around and try new foods you may have never even seen before. I felt like I was in some sort of Turkish market without ever having to travel to Turkey. I would absolutely love to come back to Vienna around Christmas when they transform the markets into the Christmas markets.

We also had a great lunch at the Schachtelwirt, which is basically like a modern Chipotle for Viennese food. Super affordable and flavorful. Also side note- the Vienna airport was also shockingly clean and super efficient which also makes traveling there more enjoyable.