So I have arrived in the home city of Mozart, Schultz and the adopted home of Beethoven. The City is quite proud of the first two, especially Mozart, but has seemed to completely ignore Ludwig van Beethoven. I mean Beethoven, he wrote Moonlight Sonata, Fur Elise, had big furry dogs named after him, and his bust sat prominently on Schroeder's piano. Why ignore him? He moved to Vienna when he was 21, wrote most of his greatest works here, died here, so I am not sure what has lead to this snub.
On my way up, since the day was sunny and not too warm, I rode through the countryside on small back roads and ignored the highways, and rolled inot Vienna around noon. I plan to be in the City for a 4-day stay. Vienna is just flat out gorgeous. Clean does not begin to describe this place. Traffic is light, not over populated, and day to day life here seems a bit more mellow. If you exclude WWII and Soviet rule until 1993, the locals here have it very nice.
Next Stop Bratislava.
Stage Distance: 124mi (199km)
Total Distance Traveled: 17,935mi (28,928km)
Countries/Territories Visited: USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar, France, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, San Marino. Slovenia, Austria
On my way up, since the day was sunny and not too warm, I rode through the countryside on small back roads and ignored the highways, and rolled inot Vienna around noon. I plan to be in the City for a 4-day stay. Vienna is just flat out gorgeous. Clean does not begin to describe this place. Traffic is light, not over populated, and day to day life here seems a bit more mellow. If you exclude WWII and Soviet rule until 1993, the locals here have it very nice.
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| National Austrian Library |
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| Ferris Wheel from 007-Living Daylights |
Next Stop Bratislava.
Stage Distance: 124mi (199km)
Total Distance Traveled: 17,935mi (28,928km)
Countries/Territories Visited: USA, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar, France, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, San Marino. Slovenia, Austria
It is really thrilling to follow your description through the world but as a native austrian I would like to correct some things:
ReplyDelete- The photo of the building you call the "Presidential Palace" shows the main building of the national austrian library which is one of the oldest and biggest libraries of the world and - as you can see - we love our books :-)
- The Soviets stayed here in Austria until 1955. In this year we were released to independency. Austria was an autonomous, powerful empire for more than 800 year with close close political relationships with the region where currently Germany is. But exept this unfortunate period between 1938 and 1945 we heve never been a part of Germany. Germany got its peace treaty in the year 1990. This treaty became effectiv on March 15.th 1991
- the home town of Mozart in Salzburg - another austrian city. But I have to admit that he had his biggest successes in Vienna.
- thank you for the compliment about Vienna: In the year 2018 the US american consulting company Mercer choosed the 9th time in series Vienna as the most livable town all over the world. Yes we have it really nice here :-)
Thank you for the quick history lesson and for following along. I travel to learn more and I appreciate any and all opportunities to do that.
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