Enrico's Travel Blog

September 18, 2026 Friday Wien, Austria Good morning! Two hour tour of the Belvedere Palace. This is really an art museum not so much a palace tour. This is where Klimt’s “The Kiss” is located. A number of early 20th century artists have works deployed here. The day began with a trip to Starbucks for our morning cappuccino; give me a break it is the only place which is open at 07:30 in the morning. Ok, not true, you can go to McDonalds, they are open. The supermarket arou

Thursday Wien, Austria Good morning! A new day and another city and country. Today we have a four-hour Viator Tour called “Fall in Love with Vienna”. It is slated to start at 09:00. The meeting place is only 270 meters from the hotel at the Wien Museum Mozart Apartment. Finding coffee in Wien at 07:00, well anything before 08:00, is impossible. Nothing is open early in the morning. The streets around the hotel, which is in a pedestrian only area, are filled with delivery

Wednesday Travel Day Praha, Czech Republic > Wien, Austria Good morning! A travel day. The adventure continues. We are taking the train from Praha to Wien. It is about a five-hour train ride. I booked us if First Class so we could be assured of having assigned seats and a table between us for playing cards. Getting to the train station isn’t difficult. We probably could have walked it, if it weren’t or the cobble stones and traffic. I looked at the rates using Uber and comp