Saturday, May 19, 2018

Austrian horses and hotdogs

This morning Jordan and I went to the Hofburg palace stables to watch the Lipizzaner horses exercise. To watch them exercise only costs $10. To watch a performance can cost over $200. Their arena is quite fancy and well cared for.  The exercise period is 2 hours long and consists of 4 periods. Each horse is only exercised for 30 minutes. Each group had 6-7 horses. The last group was the younger horses.  It was easy to see that they were still learning.  My photos stopped when the exercising began.  No photos allowed.  I was busted late in the exercise trying to take a short video.   We weren’t kicked out, just asked to put the phone away. Guessing it had to with flashes




We ate a street lunch in stephensplatz. I learned about hot dogs here.  A roll is pushed on the hot metal spear. After it is toasted inside, condiments are added and the. Your sausage of choice is stuffed down the hole.  A no mess method of eating a hot dog 

Walked a bit and checked out the public library.  You need to be registered to actually walk around inside 



Lots of carriages hauling tourists around


Every horse wears a poop collector.  Gotta keep the streets clean.


Tomorrow is Jordan’s graduation in the Hofburg Palace.  Curious.






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