After a nice extra long sleep-in we went back to Anna’s house to chat while the kids played lego together. It was a nice relaxing way to spend the day and just take it easy on the touring. Mae and Anthony were catching an afternoon bus to Vienna, so we drove to the downtown of Brno and were surprised to see it was quite a bustling city! After saying goodbye to Mae an Anthony, we decided to explore the old town of Brno. For the next couple of hours we walked the streets and marveled at the architecture. Why is it we don’t have such beautiful buildings in Toronto – now it’s only condos. One funny story – we saw a beautiful church from the 1800’s with a bent spire at the top. It turns out the sculpture who was hired to create the spires was not paid by the city, so as a result, he bent the spire to show his protest. - and it is still there to this day!
We bought some Bohemian crystal figurines – one for each of us to remember our time in Czech. We also found shops that sold Burek – we tried both cheese and meat – it was delicious and only cost around $2. Zoe the food critic will let you know more about it!
We then said good-bye to Czech and made our way to Vienna, Austria. We found a Holiday Inn close to the Ringstrasse so we had a great location. After a huge rainstorm, we went out for walk to see what was in our area. Turns out all the stores in the city close at 7:30, only café’s and restaurants remain open.
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