Adieu Vienna!

Today we woke up and again had the same delicious but sweat-inducing breakfast. We tried to find the pick-up point for the wine-country tour but our map told us a tram-line ended in one place when it actually ended at the exact place we needed to be; you can see how that could have caused us some problems. After getting off at the wrong stop we walked and asked locals until we found the tram-line that mysteriously had not ended where the map said it did.
The tour was in a bus-like-thing that will can really only be explained with pictures. The guide didn't speak english but the pre-recorded commentary for our route was bilingual and actually quite funny. The bus travels in a loop and the poster said it took 50 minutes but we got to our first destination so quickly that I thought it was a rest-stop. We got out and took some pictures of Vienna from above but for some reason (heat wave?) the city was blanketed with smog so our pictures didn't really come out. We left and drove down the hill past some very scenic and extensive vineyards. The commentary told us that Vienna was the only capital city in the world with vineyards within the city limits, not to mention most of those vineyards are award-winning.
We got to the second and last stop on our tour and it was a small, quiet, up-scale, little town called Grinzing. We found a little Italian place to have lunch because we only had an hour before our next pickup. Whitney got a salad with chicken and I got a spinach, ham, oregano and chevre pizza. Both were delicious (she told me her salad was good, but I wanted no part of it) and for such a nice little place it was pretty reasonably priced. We got back on the train-bus and headed back into town.
Whitney wanted to go to a beach on the Danube that she had heard of and even though I couldn't stand the thought of being in the sun any longer, the thought of taking a book into the shade and seeing a famous river would be relaxing. However, there was no beach, only concrete with a few rocks/brush leading down to the river. Whitney went in the river twice, but like any other in a big city, it wasn't too clean and she was content to sunbathe for another half-hour or so.
For our last outing in Vienna, we decided to go to a different film festival outside yet another glorious building, one showing mostly older movies from around the world. We were all set to see an Austrian movie from 1978 but we were promised subtitles and when they didn't appear, we decided that getting eaten by mosquitoes for 100 minutes to watch a movie we wouldn't understand wasn't worth it, so we took our complimentary glow-in-the-dark stars and left.
Vienna surprised both of us with it's size, history and beauty. We are sad to leave and feel like even though we crammed so much into four and a half days, we left a lot unseen.
We look forward to Bavaria and will try to have a blog up after our first day there. Thanks for reading and we miss you all.