Friday, July 24, 2009

My Trip to Vienna, Austria




Blut wurst (blood sausage), hanchen (chicken), sauerkraut, Schinken (ham), Semmel Knodel (like dumplings) und gurken salat (cucumber salad), great food!


Schloss Schonbrunn, summer palace of the Hapsburg family of 4


Glaciers retreating all over Austria and the world...


Natural History Museum

Art History Museum

Most famous Kaiser of Austria


Old Roman walls and drainage canals from past centuries underneath the city


The Hapsburg's main palace, Hofburg

Inside one of the many catholic churches in Vienna


St. Stephen's Cathedral, one of the most impressive and beautiful in Europe I think. Underneath are catacombs where thousands of dried bones are left over from the black plague

View of Vienna city center from high up in the Wiener Wald




1700 view of Vienna from Belvedere Garden

Pieter Brugel's painting of the Tower of Babel (Dutch)

Palace at Belvedere Garden

Hundertwasser Haus, the architect's name..

My friend Vivien, ex-UW exchangie from France

View from the office of a graduate student at TU Wien

Technical University of Vienna

Austrian National Library

Butterfly house.


Steinway Pianos are made in Vienna.


Karl's Dom

Flight from Vienna to Zurich over the northern edge of the Alps.








What really happens when the cabin depressurizes


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