Christmas in Vienna - Part 2

Vienna was beautiful!

This was our hotel.  The Radisson Blu Vienna located on the "Ringstrasse." That is the street that is placed where the city walls once stood and it circles the heart of the old city. It was central to everything we wanted to see....we walked or occasionally rode the U-bahn easily everywhere we wanted to go from this point.

 All the streets were decorated for the holidays and literally glittered.

 We saw a music concert with a chamber orchestra, singers and dancers.  These are put on for the tourists in some of the historic music halls in Vienna. They sell the tickets around the famous St.Stephen's Dom in the old town.  The salesmen (usually college students) wear historic garb and try to get the attention of the gawking tourists as they first arrive. It worked on us... The concert was very nice. The bottom picture is taken during intermission from the balcony of this music hall. (Johann Strauss played here) 

And here is the statue of Johann Strauss that stands in the Stadtpark (City Park) directly across from our hotel. It was a beautiful park and had a couple of very nice playgrounds for children.

Everything was so clean and pristine!

There are lines that go over many of the streets for the electric trains to travel on. I loved how these trains were so quiet and didn't have the diesel smell!  They were great. In areas of Chattanooga, they have perserved the tracks our electric trolleys once ran on.  After riding the Viennese electric trains, I wished they had perserved the whole system for us to use these days.