A beautiful day in Vienna began with a city tour starting with a tour of the Vienna Opera House. We were even able to see back stage as the stage was being prepared for a concert. It is an unbelievably opulent. We were treated to coffee and Sacher Torte at the opera house coffee shop.
Our city tour continued with a visit to the Spanish Riding School were we were luck enough to see a number of the beautiful Lipizzaner horses. We were also lucky enough to see the wonderful Corpus Christi procession winding its way from St Stephen's Cathedral through the streets of Vienna. Many of the participants wore traditional costumes and even the children were throwing rose petals.
We then had the afternoon to ourselves. We looked inside St Stephens, walked down a major shopping precinct, the Graben, seeing the ornate Plague Column, took a ride in a horse-drawn carriage (Flaker) and walked to Burggarden to see Mozart's statue with the treble clef planted with roses.
We took the metro back to the Scenic Ruby which was forced to moor in Vienna overnight rather than proceed to Durnstein and Melk as planned as the Danube was flooded.
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