Reflections on VIENNA

A week in Vienna is like a blink of an eye. Overwhelming beauty, sights, sounds, and senses. Everyone has their favourites. Here were some of ours:

Stephandom Church, started in the 900’s, located in the centre of old Vienna,  contrasts with Karl Marx Hof, a late 1920’s housing project which sprawl 1.2 km’s. 

View of apartment buildings overlooking the lively Naschmarkt including one by Otto Wagner with floral tiles, top right. 

The Vienna State Opera House in which we saw The Gambler, Vienna sweet table and the best strudel imaginable at Ausschank Winehouse in Grinzing: apple and berry with lemon butter sauce. 

Charming old wine village of Grinzing a must to wander to from old Vienna.  Half this delicious pork hock got doggy-bagged from  Figls: https://www.figls.at/de/

Window scenes in Vienna. 

 Left: At the Succession Gallery, New Yorker,  Nicole Eisenman’s Going Down the River on the USS J bone of an Ass, 2017, depicts a gloomy scene of the USA under Donald Trump and a society, apethetic and absent-minded is edging closer to the abyss.  

Right: Bruegels in one of the world’s best Old Masters collection in the world: the Kunsthistorisches Museum. 

Lake scene in Stadpark; wonderful tiled roof of Stephandom Church; and, a 1980’s Alfa Roméo. 

One day we joined a wine-tasting biking tour through the Wachau Valley to Durstein: 

On our way to Durstein. 

Charming town of Durstein.  

The Blue Tour of the Augustinian Monastry and view from the hilltop Castle in which King Richard 1 the Lionheart was said to have been imprisoned. 

Wachau valley views on bicycle.