Travelling with a historian would be the best thing ever. Don't even need a tour guide. From this video, Vienna is already my favorite city in Europe. It's cultural but not at all boring, since it hosts a lot of cultural festivals. I'll definitely have to visit.
It's amazing what you forget when you live in Vienna. In my ordinary life I rarely see these awesome buildings. But once a week I take a stroll around the first district and then I remind myself why I moved to Vienna in the first place. Amazing city.
Mr Rick Steve , thank you so much! You are doing great job indeed! I have been to Europe 2 years ago! It’s more than beautiful! It’s amazing!! Nothing could match the splendid Europe!
When I went there, it was summer and it was so hot and humid to walk around the court and the garden. I couldn’t finish my walking. Anyway, Vienna is a city of treasures, arts, and architecture. I was so overwhelmed!
Just got back from Vienna. Really enjoyed it, New year celebrations brilliant, very well organised. Lots of Museums, shops, bars, restaraunts to enjoy. Would definitely recommend.
Yes, Vienna...Strauss,Blue Danube...Also let me give a "Shout Out" to Cape Town, SA. I think you have a beautiful and proud city/country! Walt from Iowa.
I visited Vienna (Wien) three times. It is impressive how it evolved from 1989 to 2018. R. Steves did one of his better travels in this video. Thank you.
Rusty Shackleford That's a difficult point. Up to WW2 they definitely did. It's technically right to say that Austrians are Germans, but since most foreign people understand "german" to be a citizen of Germany rather than an ethnicity found in different countries, Austrians generally don't like to be called "german". A lot of younger Austrians don't even think about ethnicity any longer, don't know much about history and are just ignorant about all that stuff. Also, after the war, as Germans were portrayed as some kind of monsters by foreign media, Austrians seeked to somehow seperate from them. Also keep in mind that world leaders after the wars had a huge interest in weakening the power of Germans. After WW1 the german remaints of Austria (=modern Austria) wanted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, but British, American and Soviet leaders forbid. They also forced 'eternal neutrality' into Austria's constitution. There's so many factors in all of that... Long story short: ethnically we Austrians are german, but just don't call an Austrian german, sadly most people will regard you extreme right-wing, ultra-nationalistic, ...
@@o0OAnnamariaO0o "Austrians don't even think about ethnicity any longer, don't know much about history and are just ignorant about all that stuff." When you wrote that I remembered a classmate of mine in a college history class. Her family was from Austria, she spoke fluent German, and went there very year, but she did not know very basic and common things about world or European history. She did not know which nation was fighting who during WWI. She did not know if the Austro-Hungarian Empire was fighting against the Allies or not, or if they were fighting against the Ottomans or with them. She would ask questions about which side they were on or if they were on the side of the French. Also, she goes to Vienna every year.
I was therein between Saturday 11 April and Sunday 19 April 2015. The most important step-in was in the Schloß Schönbrunn. It is a marvelous complex of all possible luxurious lieu of such a real royal palace with its fantastic gardens all around. I visited this extravagant palace several times when I came to Vienna the first time be the first days of the glacial January 1993. The best walking experience in the Schloß Schönbrunn is across the Parterre Gardens, and then to going up to highest point at the Gloriette passing by the Neptun Fountain at the foot of the hill. It is a must in Vienna. Do not come to Vienna and miss this piece of pure and rare beauty, never ever. I envy the local population for their magnificent Vienna and that sublime endroit. I hoped to be one of them just to go therein each weak-end whatever the weather is.
Very imformative...Going to Vienna on the 29/12/14 for my sons 21st...lots to look at and enjoy...although we are going to be knackered when we get there after our normal hectic Xmas...Great video..really enjoyed
Thanks for your great view of Melk. My father's aunt worked there as a seamstress mending linens and such. It has been many years since I have visited there but remember the library well. I grew up along the Danube near Durnstein and Melk.
What the waitress says to him at 12:14 is the perfect embodiment of "Wiener Schmäh", or Viennese mindset and humor. She says "Soll ich glücklich dreinschauen?", which more or less translates to "Should I make a happy face for the camera?", but I think it also has a heavy undertone of "Get that camera out of my face", telling him to stop filming without ever actually saying it, because, you know: We Viennese are polite, but we don't mean it.
I always 'judge' videos about Austria from the point of view, whether or not they make me homesick. Well, you certainly nurtured my wish to go back there soon. Being Canadian now, but with thick and heavy Austrian roots, I give you a big thumbs up for your knowledgeable commentary . . . and, what really took me in . . . your musical affinity! Thank you very much for making and sharing this excellent film.
I have the same criteria in judging videos on Austria. Canadian from the Melk-Durnstein region along the Danube. I have always enjoyed Rick's travel videos and had to settle my stomach with good content here after watching two videos on the foods in Vienna. They were so misinformed that I actually left bad comments to let people know the information was incorrect. Fortunately, I was not alone.
Quick Cookie In traditional Austrian kitchen cookies are not an all-year treat. They are very different that American cookies, smaller, crunchyer (or just harder), less sweet, but often stuffed with marmelade and decorated with chocolate or sugar coating, ... and are usually made during Advent for Christmas, or for a wedding. Traditionally Viennese coffeehouses sell all kinds of pastries and cakes, even sausages and Gulasch, but cookies are a seasonal thing, just like doughnuts, which are made for Carnival. If austrian mums and grandmas made something sweet for the family on sundays, it used to be cakes, flat-fruit-tartes, or yeast-dough pastries. In modern times though the bigger, sweeter American cookie found more and more lovers in Austria, just like doughnuts, Muffins and Cupcakes. 😊
Rick Steves is second to none.
Travelling with a historian would be the best thing ever. Don't even need a tour guide. From this video, Vienna is already my favorite city in Europe. It's cultural but not at all boring, since it hosts a lot of cultural festivals. I'll definitely have to visit.
You've lead an amazing life Rick. Touring Europe and taking those of us who'll never have the means to leave America with you.
Thank you.
It's amazing what you forget when you live in Vienna. In my ordinary life I rarely see these awesome buildings. But once a week I take a stroll around the first district and then I remind myself why I moved to Vienna in the first place. Amazing city.
Sarah R. k
Are you a douche bag?!
Sorry.whree is Rick steve come from .becouse im so hard to lessen to he accent.
@@jokeralone2153 is that english?
Joker Alone USA
If I were young enough to have a bucket list, Vienna would definitely be on it! 🤩
Wow Vienna is a paradise on earth
Yes, you are right. I grew up in Vienna and my tears filling an Ocean over my lost Paradies.
Thank you Mr Steve.I survived the pandemic watching your videos!!
...glorious splendor of this beautiful movie is eternal, thank you to charismatic Mr. Rick Steves, always appreciated, love ❤️ you...
Beatiful VIenna !!!! Great Music and the romantic Danube river !!!! Thanks for sharing .
Best of Live, easy, full of beauty and humor, surroundings fantastic and endless great food.
...phenomenal movies of charismatic Mr. Rick Steves are marvelous way to enjoy unforgettable travel, greatly thankful, love ❤️ you...
Best city I've ever been, so much class and style
Mr Rick Steve , thank you so much! You are doing great job indeed! I have been to Europe 2 years ago! It’s more than beautiful! It’s amazing!! Nothing could match the splendid Europe!
When I went there, it was summer and it was so hot and humid to walk around the court and the garden. I couldn’t finish my walking. Anyway, Vienna is a city of treasures, arts, and architecture. I was so overwhelmed!
I would love to visit someday
I doubt their are any commoners vacationing in Vienna, but because of your videos, commoners can visit Vienna through video.
Just got back from Vienna. Really enjoyed it, New year celebrations brilliant, very well organised. Lots of Museums, shops, bars, restaraunts to enjoy. Would definitely recommend.
I always associate Vienna with beautiful opera music. This is amazing! Love from Cape Town, SA😍😘
Yes, Vienna...Strauss,Blue Danube...Also let me give a "Shout Out" to Cape Town, SA. I think you have a beautiful and proud city/country! Walt from Iowa.
@@waltbrown8899 Thankyou Walt. Yes, we feel very blessed to be able to stay here. God bless you and your beautiful country 😍
Vienna is a masterpiece of Europe.
And also the live itself
"Mmm...takes you back...lard!"
...I love you, Rick looooooool
I visited Vienna (Wien) three times. It is impressive how it evolved from 1989 to 2018. R. Steves did one of his better travels in this video. Thank you.
You most really be happy seeing Steve 😊
Vienna, What else! Its a nice place to be, love to be there again.
They let you in the country? Why?
@@SeanMiller-hx3gt dear sean, as a proud austrian i hope you never set foot upon our land
@@SeanMiller-hx3gt Yes. because they need my money to survive and take care of you.
Vienna wonderful, City great museums and music great tour 198os a slater 2001
Vienna is a beautiful city with so much to see and do! Thanks for sharing this video, Rick!
Vienna was the last place I traveled to before lockdown. Oh how I miss traveling
The #1 City on my travel list if I could ever afford it. Utterly breathtaking.
Watching this over a year before going to Austria for an orchestra trip, makes me SO EXCITED AAAAAAHHHH
Vienna, the capital city of Austria, holds a special charm that is intricately intertwined with the majestic Danube River.
It’s one of my international travel goals to visit Vienna. ♥️ It’s near the top of my list post-Covid
12:13 the waitress actually said: "Do I have to pretend looking happy?" That's our typical grumpy Viennese humor. :)
Rusty Shackleford That's a difficult point. Up to WW2 they definitely did. It's technically right to say that Austrians are Germans, but since most foreign people understand "german" to be a citizen of Germany rather than an ethnicity found in different countries, Austrians generally don't like to be called "german". A lot of younger Austrians don't even think about ethnicity any longer, don't know much about history and are just ignorant about all that stuff.
Also, after the war, as Germans were portrayed as some kind of monsters by foreign media, Austrians seeked to somehow seperate from them.
Also keep in mind that world leaders after the wars had a huge interest in weakening the power of Germans. After WW1 the german remaints of Austria (=modern Austria) wanted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, but British, American and Soviet leaders forbid. They also forced 'eternal neutrality' into Austria's constitution. There's so many factors in all of that...
Long story short: ethnically we Austrians are german, but just don't call an Austrian german, sadly most people will regard you extreme right-wing, ultra-nationalistic, ...
At that age it is called immaturity and self centeredness
@@o0OAnnamariaO0o "Austrians don't even think about ethnicity any longer, don't know much about history and are just ignorant about all that stuff."
When you wrote that I remembered a classmate of mine in a college history class. Her family was from Austria, she spoke fluent German, and went there very year, but she did not know very basic and common things about world or European history. She did not know which nation was fighting who during WWI. She did not know if the Austro-Hungarian Empire was fighting against the Allies or not, or if they were fighting against the Ottomans or with them. She would ask questions about which side they were on or if they were on the side of the French. Also, she goes to Vienna every year.
@@andrewtang5761 Really?? I wonder why 😕
@@mickeyts5626 she is clearly joking 😒
We went to Vienna last year What amazing City
Love, LOVE, love these vids!!!
Vienna loved the city great walks :music memories : great music .remember film’s The sound of music for example.great trip .
Vienna great city landscape museums and walks.A city to comeback to again loved this city area Ann Deakin Feb 2021.
Loved this video and the great interpretation of the so knowledgable Rick Steves. Thank you, Steves,
I was therein between Saturday 11 April and Sunday 19 April 2015. The most important step-in was in the Schloß Schönbrunn. It is a marvelous complex of all possible luxurious lieu of such a real royal palace with its fantastic gardens all around. I visited this extravagant palace several times when I came to Vienna the first time be the first days of the glacial January 1993. The best walking experience in the Schloß Schönbrunn is across the Parterre Gardens, and then to going up to highest point at the Gloriette passing by the Neptun Fountain at the foot of the hill. It is a must in Vienna. Do not come to Vienna and miss this piece of pure and rare beauty, never ever. I envy the local population for their magnificent Vienna and that sublime endroit. I hoped to be one of them just to go therein each weak-end whatever the weather is.
An impresive city I would love to settle in .
Another great one, Mr. Steves, thank you! Also, that take on lard...hysterical-brilliant! :)
I’m going to Vienna next Saturday. Should be a exciting city to explore
VIENNA IS BEAUTIFUL...!!!
Simply beautiful
Thanks for uploading to UA-cam!
Absolutely astonishing! Thanks Rick!
My beautiful Vienna,
Sincere thanks to Mr Rick! Wonderful indeed and fun and knowledge!
Viennea palace and galley great pantings Clint paintings great stuff magnificent
Vienna great city loved their with music plays and walks in woodlands.Oprah loved Mozart and contemporaries.Loved time there Ann DeakinX .
Very imformative...Going to Vienna on the 29/12/14 for my sons 21st...lots to look at and enjoy...although we are going to be knackered when we get there after our normal hectic Xmas...Great video..really enjoyed
how was it? :)
Thanks for your great view of Melk. My father's aunt worked there as a seamstress mending linens and such. It has been many years since I have visited there but remember the library well. I grew up along the Danube near Durnstein and Melk.
Enchanting Austria! Wow...
A trip onThe Danube river well worth while great towns views and countryside a great trip in 1980sAnn Deakin Warwick UK 2021
Danube valley great places to visit tours of interest cathedrals thanks Rick .
Very, very enjoyable this amazing city, thank you !!
So your talents extend to playing music as well !!
Rick sold me when he said that they have budget guesthouses down by the river. :)
the playground is beautiful, flowers and the music room is nice
So excited to our Viking trip on the Danube and oh yes Vienna! Have paid for every side trip!
Thanks, Rick Steves !!!
-K
Knowledgeable.Steve,,,thank you so much for sharing your travel,I really enjoyed watching you...
Thank you!!! This is such a great video!!! You are so great and thank you for thebest explanations, content and video!!! You are amazing!
Can`t wait to go!
Venna great city garden palace and plays that I was able to see in 1980sgreat times with friendx
Super Vienna!
thank you for your beautiful, high educating and profound view of Vienna
Love from Austria 🇦🇹
What the waitress says to him at 12:14 is the perfect embodiment of "Wiener Schmäh", or Viennese mindset and humor. She says "Soll ich glücklich dreinschauen?", which more or less translates to "Should I make a happy face for the camera?", but I think it also has a heavy undertone of "Get that camera out of my face", telling him to stop filming without ever actually saying it, because, you know: We Viennese are polite, but we don't mean it.
Phenominal expose of Austria !! High on my list !!
Love Vienna💕
Great planetoids visit love this area towns gardens and musi
Rick is the best Always great update on history scenes and great views
Wien ist sehr schön und aufregend!!
Very good Rick Steve. I love it.
High quality vacation.😎
Was ich nicht geben würde, um in die Nähe dieses Gebiets zu gelangen!
surprise to see the awesome artwork that are in my college books. Mr. Steve gives great narrative of them beside Vienna. Thanks..
I always 'judge' videos about Austria from the point of view, whether or not they make me homesick. Well, you certainly nurtured my wish to go back there soon. Being Canadian now, but with thick and heavy Austrian roots, I give you a big thumbs up for your knowledgeable commentary . . . and, what really took me in . . . your musical affinity! Thank you very much for making and sharing this excellent film.
I have the same criteria in judging videos on Austria. Canadian from the Melk-Durnstein region along the Danube. I have always enjoyed Rick's travel videos and had to settle my stomach with good content here after watching two videos on the foods in Vienna. They were so misinformed that I actually left bad comments to let people know the information was incorrect. Fortunately, I was not alone.
Had no idea Rick was so talented.
Always enjoy your videos.
Great Video! Many thanks!!!
Vienna is nice.
In Vienna right now, but the weather is so miserable that I wait for the evening to step out of my room 😭😭
No doubt Vienna is one of the must sees cities in the world!
Beautifully done
Love the Vienna great city wonderful villages and river tours mountains gardens gallery’s like pictures in the gallery’s Ann Deakin WarwickUK
very nice
Love the bloopers at the end of these episodes 😊
It took me 7 years to get here! Amazing video 😬
Thenk Rick for video !
I love this videos
the place where he tasted the wine is a district in vienna called Grinzing
Awesome Wien
Small correction for 19:05 - it's actually the other way around, the Vienna Philharmonic's musicians are recruited from the state opera orchestra :)
Very good. But is more about the art and culture. Which is fine by me.
It is an amazing video🎉
World class
Your videos are great and you have an artist as camera operator. You missed showing the cookies in that Cafe! :)
Quick Cookie In traditional Austrian kitchen cookies are not an all-year treat. They are very different that American cookies, smaller, crunchyer (or just harder), less sweet, but often stuffed with marmelade and decorated with chocolate or sugar coating, ... and are usually made during Advent for Christmas, or for a wedding. Traditionally Viennese coffeehouses sell all kinds of pastries and cakes, even sausages and Gulasch, but cookies are a seasonal thing, just like doughnuts, which are made for Carnival.
If austrian mums and grandmas made something sweet for the family on sundays, it used to be cakes, flat-fruit-tartes, or yeast-dough pastries.
In modern times though the bigger, sweeter American cookie found more and more lovers in Austria, just like doughnuts, Muffins and Cupcakes. 😊
Really?!?!
like. nice views
"Should I look happy?" the waitress asked coming through the door haha.
24:08 my mom still claims it is everytime we go back
Rick flexing on his music skills ahaha
19:42, interesting choice of couple.
Thank you