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inulroLong time no post. Again.
On Sunday we got back from a week in Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest.
Vienna is great but pretty much what you expect - huge imperial buildings everywhere. Even in the business district where we stayed there were buildings with massive fuck-off art deco reliefs on the walls. Every second corner you turn around there's something huge and monumental that makes you go "holy shit".
Our first stop was the crypt where all the Hapsburgs are buried. So many goth and metal album covers were explained. I didn't bother to brush up on who is who before we went - I have a blind spot with the Austro-Hungarian empire (it's not my period, as far as I'm concerned they're all just awful and I'm really only interested in stuff at the periphery with all the now-independent countries) so everything goes in one ear and out the other. It was the most goth thing you can possibly do, though, and far too much fun.
The last thing we did in Vienna was visit the crypt under the cathedral. It's got canoptic jars containing the viscera of all the Hapsburgs, as well as an ossuary from when they had to get rid of the cemetery in the grounds. Also ridiculous amounts of fun, but no pictures are allowed (and frankly would probably not have come out anyway).
I had in my mind that Vienna is a very Baroque city, and it is, but it's also goth as fuck if you know where to look.
And yet we spent most of our time in the zoo. It was the one really warm day we had (like 16 degrees) and we only went in to see the giant pandas, but it's a really good zoo.
Vienna was great but it was pretty much what we expected, and maybe it was the bits we saw (I did not mean to spend a whole day at Schonbrunn), it seemed a bit soulless. I also ate a disappointingly small amount of baked goods.
Oops, I have work to do - Bratislava will follow later.
On Sunday we got back from a week in Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest.
Vienna is great but pretty much what you expect - huge imperial buildings everywhere. Even in the business district where we stayed there were buildings with massive fuck-off art deco reliefs on the walls. Every second corner you turn around there's something huge and monumental that makes you go "holy shit".
Our first stop was the crypt where all the Hapsburgs are buried. So many goth and metal album covers were explained. I didn't bother to brush up on who is who before we went - I have a blind spot with the Austro-Hungarian empire (it's not my period, as far as I'm concerned they're all just awful and I'm really only interested in stuff at the periphery with all the now-independent countries) so everything goes in one ear and out the other. It was the most goth thing you can possibly do, though, and far too much fun.
The last thing we did in Vienna was visit the crypt under the cathedral. It's got canoptic jars containing the viscera of all the Hapsburgs, as well as an ossuary from when they had to get rid of the cemetery in the grounds. Also ridiculous amounts of fun, but no pictures are allowed (and frankly would probably not have come out anyway).
I had in my mind that Vienna is a very Baroque city, and it is, but it's also goth as fuck if you know where to look.
And yet we spent most of our time in the zoo. It was the one really warm day we had (like 16 degrees) and we only went in to see the giant pandas, but it's a really good zoo.
Vienna was great but it was pretty much what we expected, and maybe it was the bits we saw (I did not mean to spend a whole day at Schonbrunn), it seemed a bit soulless. I also ate a disappointingly small amount of baked goods.
Oops, I have work to do - Bratislava will follow later.
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Date: 2019-03-16 06:49 pm (UTC)