Monday, 8th of August is the big day… my first day at Deutsch Akademie. With some emotions, I started to think about it since the weekend… Well yeah, I haven’t been in a language class since some years ago, I could say high school, so I am a little bit curious on how it will going to be, how many people will be in the class, but most important, how the teacher will be? I have only a couple of hours until I will find out the answers to all my questions.
Trying to release my mind and body of all this tension, I said I could spend some time to the famous Vienna Ice Cream Festival (yeeey…. As I mentioned in my first post, I am a big ice cream lover). My thoughts and impressions about it are well, not very good, but I am an exigent person. I will try to give you some insights, and let you decide if you’ll going to visit them next year.
First of all, Vienna International Festival, was held for the first time this year. From this point of view, we have to appreciate the idea of the event. It’s an innovative idea, something different and which gathered a lot of people together. I’m thinking that in an internationalized city like Vienna, the Ice Cream festival, managed to attract a lot of citizens from the young to the older ones.
The location, Burggarten (the former private gardens of the Emperor), was also magical and ideal. Easy to find and reach, in a super central place, with a lot of trees and grass. Taking into account the place, not only Vienna citizens were aware of the event, but was also visible for the many tourists which visit Vienna in this period.
Now, about the whole Festival. I arrived there on Sunday, around 1 o’clock. Even though it was a sunny day and midday, the place was really crowded. We started at a point A (right in front of the library) and went in circle to see all the exhibitors/ sellers. I was able to find ice cream, frozen yogurt, some trucks with food (mostly burgers, hot-dogs and pizza) and a Water Splash Area, where guns filled with water were waiting and inviting you at a battle.
If you want to try something you have to be patient, at all the lines were at least 10 people, but at one at the entrance, was a huge line, where maybe (not to exaggerate) 50 people were waiting for their ice cream. For me, this was a little too much. You can have an ice cream in their Gelateria, and not to wait at a 50 people line. I would suggest for the next year, a better preparation and maybe more people in the stuff.
All in all, I liked it… it was ice cream on grass. I had a big cup of frozen yogurt with fruits and coconut topping which was great, but we were way too many people in such a small garden.
If you were at the festival I hope you enjoyed it. For me worked, I forgot for a while about by emotions, and I got energized for a new week, full of new challenges.
Bis bald!
