The last three friends that I meet were Ellie in the picture above, Henry, Harry and Heather in the picture below

And lastly it is Fran and her friends.

Schonnbrun Palace Zoo

Here is the Schonnbrun Palace Zoo, below is a picture of some Pandas. We mainly wanted to go to the Palace Zoo as it is the only Zoo in Europe that has Pandas, but wouldn't you know it the Panda enclosure was SHUT!! So we didn't get to see the Pandas after all.

Seeing as it was so cold we had to find ways of keeping entertained, so we decided to take pictures of ourselves on cold metal statues!! Lol.

This is me and Leo...

Me and Ronny...

Me and Freddy who was not my Prince Charming...

and wait there are a couple more lol.

Schonnbrun Palace

There you go the Royal Palace it is quite big and really pretty even though it was gray skies. The area the Palace is on is enclosed completely by a wall and within the confines is the Palace itself and extensive gardens as well as a reasonable sized Zoo.

Hows that for cold!!!

This is the back view of the palace, looking towards the rear of the estate and below towards the back of the Palace.

Out and About in Vienna

There is me all wrapped up against the cold.

Here is the Ferris wheel in Vienna, this was originally built in 1897, it was only built to be temporary but it was found it cost more to demolish it then to leave it standing so it has remained ever since. Crazy huh?

Me and Ange in one of the cars, and below one of the views of Vienna though it was not very good due to the weather.

Well we went to Vienna to have a white Christmas and this is about the extent of the snow we had, SUCK!!

Christmas Dinner

This is the oldest pub in Vienna, it was just across the road from our hotel so we decided to have Christmas dinner here.

This is what is left of Angela's dinner, we both had Goulash, Angela veal and I had beef. Man it was nice!!!

This is Angela's side, it was gnocchi, basically pasta balls, not the most exciting of things but nice with sauce.

Mmmmmm my pudding!!!

Only in Vienna would you find a Opera Toilet, and yes for a small fee you can pee to Mozart!

There you go some Apple Strudel.

I don't know who many of you know of the Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa but he was originally from Vienna and here is a building that is of similar design to the toilets.

And there you go it the giant Tracey looming over the minions on earth! Sorry, this is a model of St Peter's.

St Peters Church

Here is Saint Peter's Church, It is known for its striped roof which you can see in a few of the pictures.

There is the horse drawn carriages that Vienna is famous for, though I must admit the horses did stink, but then what did I expect??

One thing about Europe is when the notable places are getting refurbished on the outside they tend to like to put pictures on the scaffolding of what the building should look like, kind of ruins the pictures I must admit.

See rubbish bins do come in handy!! Just lucky no one ran off with the camera as well, considering the distance we are from the camera!!