Champagne on the Terrace

Our Viennese dinner and concert evening started with dinner at a restaurant with a Michelin chef. The four courses included raw beef, which Les decided to try (and survived!). Very nice meal, very tastefully arranged on the plates. The concert followed in the concert hall where Strauss supposedly conducted his orchestra. A nice light programme of Strauss and Mozart, with a couple of ballet dancers and opera singers. The soprano was lovely, the baritone was lovely to look at (he probably admired himself more than the women did) but unfortunately his voice didn’t live up to his looks. The concert finished with the Blue Danube, of course, then the Radezsky March as the encore, of course, then finally The Third Man theme. Champagne was served on the terrace during interval and we were taken home in a VIP double decker bus, complete with leather seats upstairs and a bar downstairs. A really pleasant evening which just added to the joy of hearing the choir of the Emperor’s church practising during the morning.