Tuesday, May 26, 2009

vienna is all about the roses

I'm only in Vienna for a day and a half (arrived early this afternoon), but I've already scoped out a lot of the "historical stuff". This included an old palace, city hall, and the most amazing historical garden ever. It had tons and tons and tons of rose trees of all different colors and varieties. It smelled excellent too.

So this is a little random, but I thought this light post was really neat.

Rows of rose trees in the historical garden - so beautiful!

City hall - looks like a cathedral.

And last but not least - a little bit of urban art on a bench outside of the museum area. I'd love to ask the artist why she doesn't have a mouth. Maybe she isn't supposed to have a voice? Hmmm...I'll ponder that on the long ride to Athens. I have an overnight train tomorrow night to Belgrade, Serbia, then a train most of the day to Sophia, Bulgaria, a few hours off to get some dinner, then another night train to Thessaloniki, Greece, then a 4 hour train into Athens on Friday. I'm going to die of boredom. Just hoping the landscape is interesting. Today's ride through the Czech Republic into Austria looked a lot like Iowa actually...plus plum trees.

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