Sunday 29th December - Vienna, Austria

The weather has deteriorated somewhat with yesterday's clear blue skies and sunshine replaced by miserable overcast.
The morning's excursions offered a choice of Art Galleries, but as Geoff has already outdone himself on this trip by voluntarily going to the Louvre without complaint, we decided not to push it and passed on the excursions.
Austria, like Germany, closes down on a Sunday, so no shops were open, though it is unlikely we would have gone shopping anyway. Instead we ended up going for a long walk along the banks of the Danube. Given that the centre of the city is very elegant, especially the tree-lined boulevards, we were struck by how appallingly ugly are the apartment buildings along the riverside. It seemed a bit incongrous to us.
This evening, it seems, we are being taken to some restaurant in the Vienna Woods for dinner.

So there are no photographs of anything interesting to post today. However, in light of Michele's  excellent gingerbread train that she produced for Christmas, I have an image of one of the pretty gingerbread houses here on the ship.