The Day of the Krapfen

Hofburg Palce

Meghan ist nach Wien gereist: Part 1

        Meg came for the weekend! We packed QUITE a lot of Vienna into one weekend, so I'm going to split it up into a few posts.
      She arrived Thursday...After briefly getting lost in a snowy Bratislava, Slovakia, she fround a bus to Vienna and navigated the U-bahn to my school center in the 1st district! We warmed up with some Einspänners (a DELICOUS coffee drink) in my favorite coffee house, cooked some dinner at home and prepared for the next day!

Ok. So Freitag! (Friday):

We packed a picnic lunch and after my morning German class, grabbed some Krapfens at Naschmarkt and ate our picnic the gardens outside the Hofburg palace.

It was a GORGEOUS day.

Now, Krapfens are pretty traditional European pastries...with different varieties depending on if you're in Vienna, or Berlin, or Hungary, etc....the best way to describe a Krapfen, is that it's somewhat like a donut? A jelly donut? But more delicious of course :)

Caution: When eating a Krapfen, first FIND: the hole in which they inject the jelly. Because: if you bite into a Krapfen without finding said hole, jelly will SHOOT out, and you will look like a darn fool with jelly spilling down your shirt. You've been warned.

On that note, Meghan ate this Krapfen marvelously! Good show!

Our Friday was pretty relaxed. We walked around Hofburg, posed enchatingly in front of a Mozart statue, and paid a visit to the Hundertwasser Haus (the artist who does not possess-in the slightest-an affinity for straight lines.)

All-in-all.....GOOD DAY!