Today, my girlfriend Tammy met us at a the Meierei Diglas Cafe within the beautiful, historical Türkenschanzpark. There, we enjoyed amazing Viennese coffee with breads, scrambled eggs, sliced avocados and smoked salmon on bagels while viewing the amazing botanical gardens, pathways and ponds all around us.
My kids thoroughly enjoyed wondering off and throwing around their football as my friend and I caught up and chatted over coffee. Afterwards, we met up with another family and walked down to the central gated playground of the park to let the kids run around and play while we sat at a picnic table and watched them. There were so many things for kids of every age to do. Kids from ages 2 to 13 ran around the park equally enjoying all it had to offer. It was also very clean and well-kept, which is all you can expect from a Viennese park and surrounding gardens.
Türkenschanzpark has an amazing history, and while it is about outside of the city center of Vienna, it is well worth venturing out to in order to enjoy its serene surroundings and space to roam.
Once we left our friends at the park, we traveled by public transportation and train to visit my in-laws in Mödling. If you don’t know the history of this city, look it up. It’s a fascinating and very old city with a lot of history! But then again, what cities aren’t fascinating in Europe?! My husband is from this town, and it just so happens to be where we got married on June 19, 2004.
We spent a couple hours there with the grandparents playing in the garden before we headed back to Vienna to visit a friend for dinner at her apartment in the 20th district off of Jägerstraße. And from there, we went home to our apartment and called it a night as we were all pooped!
We didn’t do many touristy things today, but it was a fun day because we spent it with friends and family catching up and making memories.
Tomorrow, we will visit our former church, Grace Church, an international non-denominational church in Vienna, then go for a nice lunch at a local Heuriger and then visit my friend Claudia for dinner in the artist’s district of Neubau where I lived for the first year I was living in Vienna.
Until then…
xo,
Amy
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