Vienna in Summertime
20 Notes on Vienna
♫ The weather in Vienna is much hotter than in my home area.
♫ On the first day, everything was confusing as hell (I'm not used to big cities).
♫ I wouldn't survive for even a month if I had to live there.
♫ The normal food isn't exactly wonderful - but the CHOCOLATE is. And the cakes. And the coffee.
♫ The streets of Vienna are dirtier than in Bavaria (I'm deliberately saying Bavaria, because I'm sure that the big German cities, like Berlin, are dirty too).
♫ People are rather impolite, and nobody's smiling at you in the streets. I don't really mind, because I'm the same, but the peak of all impoliteness was the conductor bitch in Linz who told an old lady off for asking about the train change.
♫ Although I can't speak Viennese and am a total country bumpkin, I've been taken for a native of Vienna several times. It's puzzling.
♫ Stephansplatz put me in a cranky mood. Too crowded, too confusing, too touristy, too expensive, too crushing for little me. And it smells of horses. I like horses, so it doesn't bother me.
♫ Vienna obviously needs no street signs and the houses apparently have no numbers. Sometimes I didn't know where I was, but I always ended up where I wanted to go. Miracle Vienna. It's built in a special way to prevent Austrian people from getting lost.
♫ On the first evening I roamed around in the city. I got to see the less touristy sides of the city, found some nice shops, and it's just so nice to walk around alone. I think I did most of my shopping on that evening.
♫ Off the tourist tracks, Vienna feels more like an ordinary big city. There's something familiar about it. People on the streets are talking Viennese. It's lovely.
♫ Everybody is smoking everywhere. But I'm used to the strict Bavarian smoking-ban.
♫ Young waiters speaking Viennese have moved up in my ranking of sexiest men. Some of them smell of tobacco instead of coffee, though.
♫ Vienna is best in the early morning. That is, before 10 a.m. And in the evening after 8 p.m.
♫ Morbidity >> decadence = Vienna
♫ First class breakfast at the hotel! In 2005 I stayed at a different hotel, but the breakfast was also first class. In general I must say, that my hotel was superb! I brought earplugs, though (hotel was close to a busy street). I slept very well.
♫ I've been to the Deutscher Orden headquarters and left with the impression that Himaruya somehow made some researching mistakes when equalling Prussia with the Ordensland.
♫ Sisi geht mir auf den Keks. Even more than Mozart.
♫ In Schönbrunn, I was stalking a Japanese group, just to hear them say "Oosturia-san", "Hangari-san", "Franz Joseph" and "Sugoi!". It made me oddly happy.
♫ I thought I got used to Bavaria long ago, but now I'm a little homesick for Austria again... XD
I took a total of 410 photos. A quarter of them are stored in this photo album.
♫ The weather in Vienna is much hotter than in my home area.
♫ On the first day, everything was confusing as hell (I'm not used to big cities).
♫ I wouldn't survive for even a month if I had to live there.
♫ The normal food isn't exactly wonderful - but the CHOCOLATE is. And the cakes. And the coffee.
♫ The streets of Vienna are dirtier than in Bavaria (I'm deliberately saying Bavaria, because I'm sure that the big German cities, like Berlin, are dirty too).
♫ People are rather impolite, and nobody's smiling at you in the streets. I don't really mind, because I'm the same, but the peak of all impoliteness was the conductor bitch in Linz who told an old lady off for asking about the train change.
♫ Although I can't speak Viennese and am a total country bumpkin, I've been taken for a native of Vienna several times. It's puzzling.
♫ Stephansplatz put me in a cranky mood. Too crowded, too confusing, too touristy, too expensive, too crushing for little me. And it smells of horses. I like horses, so it doesn't bother me.
♫ Vienna obviously needs no street signs and the houses apparently have no numbers. Sometimes I didn't know where I was, but I always ended up where I wanted to go. Miracle Vienna. It's built in a special way to prevent Austrian people from getting lost.
♫ On the first evening I roamed around in the city. I got to see the less touristy sides of the city, found some nice shops, and it's just so nice to walk around alone. I think I did most of my shopping on that evening.
♫ Off the tourist tracks, Vienna feels more like an ordinary big city. There's something familiar about it. People on the streets are talking Viennese. It's lovely.
♫ Everybody is smoking everywhere. But I'm used to the strict Bavarian smoking-ban.
♫ Young waiters speaking Viennese have moved up in my ranking of sexiest men. Some of them smell of tobacco instead of coffee, though.
♫ Vienna is best in the early morning. That is, before 10 a.m. And in the evening after 8 p.m.
♫ Morbidity >> decadence = Vienna
♫ First class breakfast at the hotel! In 2005 I stayed at a different hotel, but the breakfast was also first class. In general I must say, that my hotel was superb! I brought earplugs, though (hotel was close to a busy street). I slept very well.
♫ I've been to the Deutscher Orden headquarters and left with the impression that Himaruya somehow made some researching mistakes when equalling Prussia with the Ordensland.
♫ Sisi geht mir auf den Keks. Even more than Mozart.
♫ In Schönbrunn, I was stalking a Japanese group, just to hear them say "Oosturia-san", "Hangari-san", "Franz Joseph" and "Sugoi!". It made me oddly happy.
♫ I thought I got used to Bavaria long ago, but now I'm a little homesick for Austria again... XD
I took a total of 410 photos. A quarter of them are stored in this photo album.