After Croatia I realised I had less than two weeks Vienna, and with only a few pesky exams to worry about I wanted to cram in as much as possible in the time I had left. I saw a play at Burgtheater and an opera at Volksoper, visited the animals and flowers at Tiergarten Schönbrunn, danced at the biggest open air music festival in Europe, tried a Leberkäse, explored the Naturhistorisches Museum, went on a final Saturday trip to Naschmarkt, and relaxed in the sun at Stadtpark one last time.
The cast of Romeo + Julia at Burgtheater, a very artsy interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
Waiting for Die Fledermaus at Volksoper.
Tiergarten Schönbrunn (the Vienna Zoo) is the oldest zoo in the world, and in the most beautiful location in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace. You can still see some of the old Baroque buildings and cages, but luckily the animals are kept in more natural habitats now. The enclosures are super chilled, meaning that birds (like one cheeky pelican) sometimes roamed about freely.
The sloth enclosure wasn't even labelled and had no lock at all, it was literally just a room in a beautiful Baroque building you could walk into where two sloths happened to be hanging out. Best.
A little further through the zoo was the Tyrol farm experience, with feisty goats and a traditional mountain cottage with a terrifying Austrian man offering free slices of cheese and selling delicacies like cured ham and sour milk.
Every summer Vienna hosts the biggest open air music festival in Europe on the Danube Island, -Donauinselfest. The festival stretched across the whole island with stages every few hundred metres playing every kind of music you could hope to hear. Altogether my last week was a pretty excellent way to finish up five months of living in Vienna.
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