austria - vienna

Vienna, the music capital of Europe. For as low as 3 euros you can catch an opera or an orchestra. The lavishly decorated room and the people that streamed into the room will make your smart causal attire seem oddly out of place. People are of a different class here. A man wearing a tuxedo brought a foldaway chair and a book to read before the start of the performance. The equally elegantly dressed old lady in front of him was knitting a scarf. A quick scan through the crowds and you can spot who are the locals and who are the tourists.

Surprising the most enjoyable part of the trip weren't the music in the streets or the performances. It was the morning i spend in the cemeteries looking for the graves of the famous musicians like Mozart, Beethoven etc. I sat alone in the cemetery at 8am in the morning, i cant really say that I'm alone except that everyone around me is resting in peace. Tranquility. Something that always eludes me as i go about my day to day routine.

"i have the whole park to myself."-cj

"read all about it.
pay a dollar and its up to you
to just take only a copy not 2."-cj

"Mozart's grave was easy to find.
But the rest are not."-cj

"stop! cyclist please put your right leg on the ground!"-cj

"Schloss Schonbrunn. The Vienna equivalent of Versailles."-cj

"Sigmund Freud Museum.
too bad i didnt have time to go in for a look,
cos i really wonder what can they put on display?" -cj

"dogs are allowed on trains, sometimes restaurants too,
as long as they are muzzled."-cj

"be careful of what lurks in a cemetry."-cj

"mozart."-cj

"Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) - Beethoven." -cj

"schunbert."-cj

"brahms."-cj

"Hundertwasserhaus" -cj

"the artist simply do not like straight lines."-cj

"Stephansdom (St. Stephen's Cathedral)"-cj

"museum district."-cj

"The New Palace (Neue Hofburg)"-cj

It snowed in vienna too.