5 June-------We have just spent two days in Vienna, I should have waited before proclaiming Budapest as once the grandest city in all of Europe, for with out a doubt it was Vienna.
Vienna was the home of the Habsburg dynasty which controlled the poweful Austro-Hungarian for over 600 years and they lived in palaces and listened to music composed by Mozart, Strauss and Schubert, just for them and their relatives and royal neighbours.
It took the WW 1 to end their reign and now we can all admire the beautiful buildings and gardens and listen to their music.