Euro18: Imperial Carriage Museum

The Imperial Carriage Museum at Schloss Schönbrunn is part of the Kunsthistorische Museum.  It’s a very different experience from the Royal Mews in London. Since one of my performance site visits on Wednesday was only one subway stop away from Schönbrunn, I went out to the palace to spend some time with the sleighs (!)

Euro18: and home

I woke on Friday morning to the iPad NOAA warning about extreme temperatures at Rienosslsgasse 3 in Vienna. Fortunately, I was home in Saint Louis with moderate weather, but more humidity. At some point my iPad will figure out that I’m in the USA. I certainly know that I am! Witness: Iced tea!! I went

Euro18: last views of Vienna

From my one-night stay at the Hilton Stadtpark prior to leaving Wien:

Euro18: the Imperial vault

The Habsburg rulers from many previous centuries are all buried in the same vault at the Capuchin Church in Vienna. On Tuesday, I visited the site.  Empress Maria Theresa’s tomb is the most grand and glorious, of course. And compare the crown in the hand of death with the Holy Roman Empire crown: And while

Euro18: leaving tomorrow

I leave on Thursday.  My flight from Vienna is at 0015 hours USA body time.  This will be a long day, but not the longest I’ve ever had. My morning included work and tourism, and then a return to the flat to pack. I said goodbye to Rienoβlsgasse 3 at about 3 p.m., and took

Euro18: the last Tuesday

Tuesday, July 24. I arrived in Europe three weeks ago this morning.  And just a few minutes ago, I checked in for my return to USA on Thursday. At coffee with J.P. this morning, we were talking about that inevitable sense we get when traveling on longer journeys — no matter the length of the

Euro18: old Jewish cemetery

Zentral Friedhof.  Developed by the Viennese city government in the last third of the 19th century.  A land mass half the size of Zurich.  And a dead population larger than the current population of Vienna. The old Jewish section of the cemetery was established in 1863, with more than 70K burials by the time Austria

Euro18: energie

Well, after three weeks abroad, my energy is flagging and my stamina is waning. Sunday was another big walking day, with more than 13K steps. And the temperature Monday is just bloody hot. (The next two days are going to be worse.) After skipping my Salzburg trip on Monday, and doing only two museum visits of

Euro18: Sunday in Vienna

I took a slower pace on Sunday and found myself watching people even more than usual. Without being too creepy (and of course any time one writes that phrase, it’s because something creepy is taking place), here are some local color shots from Sunday– A whole group of Japanese kids and mothers, the children all

Euro18: Zentral Friedhof

Sunday, July 22. Holy Eucharist at Christ Church, Vienna. Salad and dessert at Cafe Schwarzenberg.  Visit to Central Cemetery.  Walk in the city center.  Organ recital at the Jesuitenkirche.  Dinner at a bräu in Spittelberg. Vienna is drizzly tonight. I had visited the pantheon of composer graves at Zentral Friedhof in 2008, but today I journeyed