Leung Family Travels: Vienna: July 12 & 13: Schloss Belvedere, Neumarkt Flea Market, and Spittelberg

In the garden at Schloss Belvedere. Just like Schonnbrun, we sought to wear the kids out in the garden then go into the house. Schloss Belvedere houses the world's largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt, including the famous, The Kiss.

Of course, as soon as we got there, the boys got right into the gravel. That's always their first order of business.

We don't know much about the house, only that it was given to a General who was made into a Prince. He lived in the house at the bottom, called the Lower Belvedere, while he had meetings and balls up in the Upper Belvedere. The paintings are housed in the Upper Belvedere.

Eamon got a hold of my camera and took a portrait of Gio during lunch. After play, we eat, then, the boys are pretty worn out and tired while Ming and I explore the museum.

The boys, reunited with their best buddies, doggie and monkey. We accidentally left them in Budapest and our Airbnb host sent them to our place in Vienna express. The boys were thrilled! They're repeated kissing them!

On Saturday, we visited the flea market at Neumarkt. It was really a typical flea market, but the food was certainly more exciting than what we're used to.

Ming choosing spice mixes. There were quite a few Turkish vendors selling spices. They all smelled wonderful

Gio helping choose.

There were many stone fruits on offer. Notice the cute strawberry basket near the center of the photo.

Really incredible, handmade, brass kaleidescopes. We were all fascintated by them; Gio especially. They're made by this vendors friend, in Geneva.

Eamon munching on an apricot. This guy is a fruit freak!

Asleep soon after!

That afternoon, we explored a neighborhood called Spittelberg. It's the only cute neighborhood we found in Vienna. The city is very similar to Washington D.C in that there are a lot of large, looming, grandiose buildings. All of the cute, winding street neighborhoods were demolished back in the late 1800's to make way for the large, ostentatious buildings. Of course, WW2 didn't help much as we saw a lot of non-descript, boring, cement buildings.