First stop

The first thing we did in Vienna was get on the bus to Bratislava, Slovakia! Bratislava is only about 50 km from the Vienna airport and we decided that since we were so close we would take advantage of visiting another country.
A memorial to the fallen Jews of the city.
Mozart played one of his first concerts in Bratislava. He was only 6.
We enjoyed our short time in Bratislava, however, we didn't get much of a sense of the pulse of it. We stayed only in the old city and that was probably why.

A market was set up selling all kinds of Easter eggs. They were absolutely beautiful and not very expensive either - only 2 Euro for a handpainted egg. I bought a few....


The opera house.

Fortunately our bus did not look like this one!
Row upon row of communist apartment buildings.