After two weeks of trains, buses, and boats, the last leg of our holiday began with subways and trams. By night, though, we were staying seven floors above the noise and bustle of city life. And as it turned out, the first thing we ate in Vienna was carnival food on the other side of the Danube River, after walking for an hour, past, of all things, an Al Pacino restaurant. But it’s worth mentioning that St. Stephen’s Cathedral, which rests in the center of the city like the Eiffel Tower of Paris, caught us both by surprise as we rose up from the subway exit, something you can’t possibly capture on camera, or at least not the shock of standing underneath it with all your luggage, feeling very much like an out-of-place tourist.
