Lunch on the train from Prague to Vienna. In first class, you get service at your seat.

The Augustinians’ Church in Vienna. Every Sunday they have a mass with choir and orchestra. We heard the Mass in C major by Rheinberger.

The Vienna State Opera isn’t doing any opera this week. They’re about to remove the orchestra-level seats and create a huge dance floor for the annual Opera Ball. So we took a tour of the opera house instead.

South tower of St. Stephen’s Cathedral. We climbed the 343 steps (which only get you halfway up). We also toured the catacombs, where the internal organs of the imperial Habsburg family are preserved in alcohol. You can’t make this up.

Statue outside the cathedral — St. John of Capistrano preaching death to the Ottoman Turks. There’s nothing new under the sun.

Our reward for the 343 steps – an excellent Italian restaurant just up the street from the hotel. Arlin had artichoke pizza with an egg in the middle; I had gnocchi with chestnut sauce, arugula, shaved parmesan, and thin-sliced veal.