Based on a promise to ‘Pay Attention‘, this is one of six blogs with the good intention is to publish a photo a day of my six month adventure in Vienna with a caption and thoughts on the image. Note that the publication date and the date when the photos were taken are not the same. Enjoy my (manly) scrap-book for future memories… take that future dementia!
PS… Be patient and wait for the pictures load…
April 30: The last photo of the first full month in Vienna of six months.
Hiking through the vineyards near Bad Vöslau
April 29: More on the theme of nailing into wood. This tree (behind the glass and named Stock im Eisen) is believed to be from the 15th century with numerous legends of its pedigree (including being the last tree of a sacred grove). Now a seldom notice albeit prominant feature in Stephensplatz.
Stock im Eisen, Stephensplatz
April 28: Wehrmann in Eisen; I came across this unusual sculpture walking home last night. Underneath about 500,000 nails is an original wooden sculpture create in 1915 in support of the war effort. The first nails were pounded by the German and Turkish ambassadors, Austria’s allies in that conflict a century ago. Taken with my phone, I may need to go back and try for a better shot with a better camera.
Wehrmann in Eisen, Vienna
April 27: I have found the perfect pair of conservative accountant’esque shoes. Near my office which is also home to some fabulously expensive shops selling things the rich do not really need but covet for that exact reason.
April 26: A quiet moment on the inner-city’s ring road. Of course the reason there is a nice ring road is that it is where the city walls used to stand until a few hundred years ago.
A quiet moment on the ring road
April 25: Vienna is surrounded by woods and working farmland. To this end, Vienna produces its own wine on the slopes both within and visible from the city centre. This is looking east toward the Danube and across one of these vineyards.
North Vienna looking across vineyards east to the Danube.
April 24: these two gents retrieve junk from the Danube canal. They either sell the scrap or they offer tourists a chance to throw the lanyard weighted with a magnet into the canal. Donations are encouraged. Note their faces were obscured upon request.
Fishing for metal in the Danube.
April 23: take a break cycling on the Danube north of Vienna. A couple also enjoying a sunny and bright moment.
The Danube, north of Vienna
April 22: Did you ever have one of those days. What started out as a brilliant plan to photograph 8 ‘scholosses’ in 8 hours was set asunder by the massive Vienna marathon and bike malfunction.
The fun category of runners turning west by the Opera.
April 21: Unfortunately the video did not turn out. What is missing from this picture is the cacophony of sound. Dozens of vegetable sellers singing/yelling about their wares. You would be forgiven if you thought you were in Istanbul rather than Vienna.
Bauernmarkt Lebinizgasse
April 20: last weekend a huge bike event was in Vienna. In addition to going around in circles there were also BMX jumps and dozens of displays and vendors. A cyclist’s Nirvana.
April 17, 18 and 19
The Danube Island
Looking south on the Danube and end of the Danube island.
A cyclist rides past the stadium bridge with a back drop of spring leaves
April 16
The fellow in the reflective vest has responsibility to assign grill spots.
Just one of hundreds of grills along the Danube on a Sunday afternoon. The vast majoring being ‘turkish’ the smells, families and kibitzing was wonderful.
April 8-15
Canada lost 16 active people in horrific traffic accident in Saskatchewan late on April 6. As a form of remembrance (the whole point of this blog series), the next photos are simply of beauty. Enjoy and hug your kids/parents today if you have them close by.
April 7
Sometimes the seemingly easiest things are the hardest. Take finding a shower squeegee. 10 stores later I finally found the last one in all of Vienna (only a slight exaggeration).
April 6
April Budding in the bushes noted en route to work.
April 5
Candle stick holder in one of the chapels of the Heiligenkreuz Monastery
April 4
One of at least 3 grocery stores within easy walking distance from my apartment.
April 3
There is a lot going on in this photo. Firstly my trusty folding bike (thanks Rhonda!) on the Danube River with a barge sailing just out of left side of the picture. It is going under a major roadway containing automobile, metro and pedestrian traffic. In the background you can see the Vienna international centre as well as the office buildings springing up around this complex .
April 2 – Shopping on an Easter Sunday
Walking into the Billa shown below in the Praterstern train station you could be forgiven thinking that a major story was looming for Vienna. Every isle is full of people and there is a frantic sense. Instead, this shop is simply one of the few that is open on Sundays. As a result, it draws people from all over Vienna for forgotten items or even a weekly shop.
One of the few grocery stores open on a Sunday in Vienna. This one is found in the Praterstern train station.
April 1 – Karlskirche
Karlskirche – the Centre piece of Karls Platz.
Organizational Biology 