{"id":27079,"date":"2012-07-08T23:17:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T07:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=27079"},"modified":"2012-07-08T23:17:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T07:17:41","slug":"doing-vienna-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/doing-vienna-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Vienna In Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vlog #3:<\/span> Eastern Europe- Vienna, Austria<\/h2>\n<h2>httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/5kDYuoclDhM<\/h2>\n<h2>Hotel Sacher<\/h2>\n<p>Lucky us that it was one of the girls on our tour birthday. So to celebrate we got to have a local dessert called a <strong>Sacher Torte<\/strong>, chocolate cake with apricot filling goodness. Even though I instantly felt sick afterwards, a dessert like this was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hotel Sacher- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491209876\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7277\/7491209876_4cab039696_b.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Sacher- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hotel Sacher- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491212286\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8027\/7491212286_da1932f862_b.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Sacher- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hotel Sacher- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491208396\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8434\/7491208396_30b023b187_b.jpg\" alt=\"Hotel Sacher- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Austria\u2019s largest and most recognizable companies is <strong>Swarovski<\/strong> , a retailer and designer of fashionable jewelry and crystal figures. Lucky us we got a tour of the flagship store in downtown Vienna, where we learned about all the different types of crystal object they manufacture.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491189310\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7247\/7491189310_f7ab7b45f8_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491165174\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8157\/7491165174_f43da26bf6_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491171656\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8286\/7491171656_6c57d876bc_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greeted with Moet Champagne. Swarovski I like your style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491162908\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7254\/7491162908_fda31ebde2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491174674\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7275\/7491174674_685acaf0fe_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491158592\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7280\/7491158592_9fe10f1640_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491181954\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8423\/7491181954_3db8aafa40_b.jpg\" alt=\"Swarovski- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Schnapps Museum<\/h2>\n<p>That afternoon it was time to get some drink on at the <strong>Schnapps Museum. <\/strong>Now I\u2019m not a heavy drinker and from my somewhat limited knowledge of alcoholic beverages in North America I can tell you that absinth is not a common drink. Well in Vienna and Eastern Europe it is. Here at the schnapps museum we got the pleasure of tasting several different types of schnapps. I had 4 shots: an absinth mix, the house specialty Gold, an apricot one and fireball. I was too chicken to try the straight absinth.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Schnaps Museum- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491131500\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8283\/7491131500_281b52ef83_b.jpg\" alt=\"Schnaps Museum- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Schnaps Museum- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491128666\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7121\/7491128666_8acfccbbf9_b.jpg\" alt=\"Schnaps Museum- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Schnaps Museum- Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491126574\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8153\/7491126574_2d106e89bc_b.jpg\" alt=\"Schnaps Museum- Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;before&#8221; face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Schonbrunn Palace<\/h2>\n<p>That evening we had a special treat of dinner and a Mozart concert. A must-do when in Vienna! I love my classical music, I used to listen to it a lot when I would do university work. I know all the classics and the big composers, but now that I am out of school I don\u2019t listen to it quite as often which is rather sad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8293\/7491122416_c80037867f_b.jpg\" alt=\"Schonbrunn Palace - Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was also very lucky to be able to film the Mozart concert since usually they don\u2019t allow cameras in \u2013 yay for video blogs!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Schonbrunn Palace - Vienna, Austria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/7491109774\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8010\/7491109774_0a3b84c8d6_b.jpg\" alt=\"Schonbrunn Palace - Vienna, Austria\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desserts, Crystals and Mozart Concerts. <i> Vienna, Austria <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[241,810,962,1691,1891,2318,2369,2370,2606,3021],"class_list":["post-27079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eastern-europe","tag-austria","tag-travel","tag-europe","tag-liveshows","tag-mozart-concert","tag-sache-torte","tag-schnapps-museum","tag-schonbrunn-palace","tag-swarovski","tag-vienna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}