I’ve had the privilege to experience some more lovely
Austrian holidays! We didn’t have class
this past week for two days because of a holiday. We had both Thursday and Friday off from
class, and to be truthful I didn’t know which day the holiday officially
was. I had planned to go into the city
on Thursday to do a little shopping, betting that Friday would probably be the
holiday. I was shortly proven wrong
though, because as I was walking to the tram station I had to stop for a religious
parade! There was a band, there were
priests, there were kids with candy, and there were people in lederhosen
everywhere. It was a really nice parade
all in all, and I really enjoyed it. I
knew this would mean, however, that the majority of shops would be closed. I
decided to go into the city anyway to see if anything else exciting was
happening, and I got to witness what I think was an outdoor mass in the middle
of the central square (I’m not entirely sure since it was in German, but there
was a priest!).
Even though I didn’t get any shopping done, it ended up
being a jolly holiday because one thing that was open was a gelato stand. And there’s nothing like sitting in the sun
with a gelato on your day off from class.