Vienna - View from the Room

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We're staying the the Marriott Courtyard Schonbrunn. Have the rooms at the back so we are free of street noise. The view is of apartments. Stark and clean compared to Cairo.  It's 3:30 pm so time to go out and start exploring!

 Looka like a little garden area near the rooftop of this building.

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