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June 15, Vienna to Spitz
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We leave the apartment, distribute refuse in the various places the myriad categories of refuse must go, and rattle along several blocks to the metro we take out of town to the Sixte. A young, pretty and extremely helpful woman… Continue reading
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June 14, Vienna Day 6
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We are up and out pretty rikky-tick quick to meet Monica at the Leopold Museum located behind the Kunsthistoriches-dominated Museum Quarter. (Ie. Tram D.) This place is Mecca for Viennese art nouveau and the Expressionists. We’re talking Klimt’s Death and… Continue reading
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June 13, Vienna Day 5
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We wake in a bit of a lazy mood ‘cause we don’t have anything to do before arriving at the Opera house at 11:00 for another chamber music concert and the trip takes at most a half hour. So we… Continue reading
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June 12, Vienna Day 4
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Wake at 8 and caffinate in a bit of a rhyming rush ‘cause we have 9:45 tickets to see the Belvedere this morning: the large “guest house and entertaining space” above the smaller 25,000 square foot living quarters of Johann… Continue reading
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June 11, Vienna Day 3
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David makes coffee for Bernadette and self while Cynthia sleeps. When she wakes, she makes herself breakfast and immediately shifts into max-plan mode, which can be her scariest metaphysical state: What when where, for how long, at what cost, buy… Continue reading
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June 10, Vienna Day 2
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Wednesday begins with strong caffeine and sunshine glancing intermittently through gray sky. Interestingly, the apartment’s canister of sugar has several vanilla beans in it, which blooms a lovely aroma. The refrigerator: not so much: though it is totally empty, it… Continue reading
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June 9, Vienna Day 1
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Occasionally when you travel, there’s no place to go but up. Getting to Vienna yesterday began with our direct flight on Austrian Air being cancelled at 9 a.m.. We were shoved into an Italian Air flight to Rome with a… Continue reading
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