And This Is Vienna

July 29th, 2007

Vienna is beautiful - all neat sidewalks, knives and forks scratching daintily on white plates, and magnificent baroque architecture. horse-drawn carriages sail smoothly down the streets of the city, and it’s easy to close your eyes and eclipse the thrilled tourists atop the carriage with your own imageries of the perfectly-coiffed ladies of 17th century Europe, dressed magnificently and fanning themselves, while tittering girlishly behind lace gloves as they make their way towards the week’s high-so ball.

one breathes the arts in Vienna. everywhere in the city, there are vestiges of Austria’s rich history in arts and culture, and just as many signs of contemporary uptakes. the former manifest themselves in the walls of old buildings and the many historical sites of the city; the latter in the form of flyers given out by wigged men all decked out in fancy costume complete with waistcoats and breeches. i dont envy them; it was really hot in Vienna when we were there.

i regret to inform that the Martian and i didnt see as much of Vienna as we would have liked, due to tight schedules (him) and sleeping in too late (me). of all the museums and galleries in the city, we only managed to see one! foodwise, we didnt cover much either save for the meats and cheeses and coffee. no apfelstrudel or the original sachertorte :( though we did see many churches.

i took some gorgeous photos at Naschmarkt and St Stephan’s that i was really eager to share, but as y’all know, them pics are forever gone. so here are pictures of our 2 days in Vienna, all as taken by Martian. he didnt take very many pictures, but i uploaded the pics from his camera to find that most of them had me in it. haha! baby you love me wan issit. okay lah i love you too. because you gave me all of your pictures.


#1 breakfast at the hotel on the first morning. best ever cold cuts and cheeses


#2 the Karlskirche cathedral with a work of Plop Art


#3 at the steps of the cathredal. we took some really nice selftimer pics here with my camera :(


#4 inside Karlskirche


#5 i didnt like Karlskirche much as you can see from the pic :P it had all these ugly beams in there to support an elevator system. Stephansdom was breathtaking however


#6 at some museum


#7 me and Martian. hahaha no lah no lah


#8 Bach’s star


#9 we stopped at this lovely kaffeehaus outside the Operahouse while waiting for the bus


#10 at the Hofburg Palace, the cool crib of many an important man in Austrian history. er that is not me squatting on the floor in a most unladylike manner. aiyah i just wanted to take a picture from the bottom of the statue! and i did! and it came out nice. but you will never know that, won’t you! so it’s actually not me squatting on the floor in a most unladylike manner.


#11 still at Hofburg


#12 the cafe and shopping area nearby Stephansdom, with Hofburg Palace in the background


#13 at my favourite place in Vienna, the Naschmarkt. it’s a long market street housing knick knacks, clothes, fresh produce and foodstuff. ps i hate wasabi nuts, argh


#14 at Segafredo! haha of all places


#15 i really just had to do this pizza stall thing! pretty good stuff


#16 in the city. we later ran in this rain coz we were this close to missing our train to Budapest


#17 Votivkirche from afar. we never went in


#18 someone rustled behind this door and i got scared


#19 at the Sigmund Freud Museum. the girl in black on the left is actually a guy in black on the left


#20 Freud’s psychoanalyst sofa! love and work, work and love, that is all there is.


#21 outside the museum. no i dont know why my legs look like that


#22 /wistful


#23 the subway

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that’s it, though there is so much more to Vienna that we saw. and also so much more that we didnt. anyhoo, Budapest pics up next :)

these peanut butter biscuits are most addictive.

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