Had you guessed? So my best friend's family wanted to give her a special holiday as a birthday present, and decided that she needed someone to accompany her to Vienna, to chaperone/entertain/get lost in the snow with/drive her round the bend/speak bad German, whatever.
There isn't room to tell you all about the elegant houses, the gluhwein, the Lipizzaner horses, the ride in a fiacre, and the Christmas markets. Or even the snow, which drifted down all Tuesday and was so soft it blew around our feet and looked like mist. Oh, and we went to Mozart's house. He wasn't in, but we were able to wander through the rooms where he composed.
Oh, and the breakfasts. The Viennese do take food seriously. And I learned the sad story of lovely Empress Sissi.
And I remembered how good it is to get home and sleep in my own bed.
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