Vienna Impressions - I

 

I’m totally unable to decide which ones to post, therefore it became quite a lot – posting is split to prevent the page from being too slow.

Update: After I changed my layout I decided to alter this posting a little, it didn’t fit into the frame anymore:

Books at Melk Monastery’s old library. We stopped there on our way.

Cruiser on Danube river. Reminds me a litle of the cruiser in Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. I know I have too much phantasy.

Medical staff at Otto von Habsburgs’s funeral procession. I’m oldfashioned and therefore passionately hate those things they’re standing on, therefore I couldn’t resist and took the picture.(of course they are very useful in this case, though!)

Swedish Royals at the funeral. I like the guy in the background at the right.

“Graben” Street at the heart of Vienna. (There’s the most beautiful h&m store I’ve ever encountered)

Best Kaiserschmarrn I ever had – hat Café Restaurant Landtmann, right next to the Burgtheater

People queuning in front of Kapuziner – church to condole Otto von Habsburg

Army division in the funeral procession. I’m feeling a bit bad but couldn’t resist photoshopping a little….. And seriously, this funeral procession was a unique and very impressive event. Specially those precisely marching army divisions while music ensembles played a famous funeral march caused me goosepimples (Gänsehaut).

Square dedicated to the former major Helmut Zilk, in the background the old and famous Café Mozart.

Anarchist poster in an old shopping window at Leopoldstadt, close to our hotel.

 

Entrance of Albertina art museum.

Some of Albertina’s current exhibitions. My favourite was Monet till Picasso, I guess that’s my favourite art periode.

Palmenhaus – “palm tree house”

Burggarten

Fiaker carriage – at Hofburg

Art Nouveau Jewellery in Leopold Museum. I think that was a temporary exhibition, pieces from all over Europe were displayed. Very nice to look at!

Inside Leopold Museum’s Art Nouveau department. In the background there is a painting of one of my favourite artists – Gustav Klimt

At Heuriger Wine Restaurant: Live music in the garden. (for more information see part II)

Door of the house where Nestroy was born. We had a delicious luch at an Italian restaurant right opposed to it.

Statue in front of the Art History Museum