Fri 29 Aug- Spanish Riding School visit

Fri 29 Aug- after breakfast buffet, we headed back to Stephensplatz for the Spanish Riding School training session featuring the Lipizzaner stallions. It was not an actual performance, it was the riders putting the horses through their paces as an exercise and training session, but it was wonderful to see those graceful and beautiful horses exercising in the various gaits they use in the performances (http://hutchings.smugmug.com/photos/363974656_mQc62-M.jpg). After the show, we walked around a bit, had a Vienna coffee at a coffee house, and then headed back to the ship for lunch. We relaxed on the ship until dinner.
After the port talk about tomorrow's destination, Bratislava (capital of Slovakia), we had another great dinner: choice of house wine, phylo pastry stuffed with feta cheese ham and leek in curry, beef consomme, roast pork tenderloin in Savoy cabbage with caraway beer gravy with potato gratin and vegetables (Stan) or breaded eggplant stuffed with tomatoes and appenzeller cheese with baked potato and sour cream (Kiyomi), French apple pie with vanilla sauce and vanilla ice cream for dessert.