Looking Up and Seeing True Blue

Walking the dog in the Morning.



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Espresso, anyone?

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Zum Schwarzen Kameel

Temporary.
Work in progress.
Merisi, November 2006


The "Black Kameel" (or "Stiebitz") is Vienna's oldest restaurant. It has been in the same family since 1618 when Johan Baptist Cameel first acquired it (http://www.kameel.at/).


In the the deli section
(there is also a vinothek and a small dining room)


Enjoying tramezzini and little sandwiches with a glass of vine

Within Vienna City Limits

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The City in the early morning mist.

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8 am. Morning mist is rising, and the dogs are out to play.

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In the woods, yet only two minutes from your next Mélange. *)

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Fir Tree


*) Walking distance, that is. :-)

The MuseumsQuartier

There is more to the MuseumsQuartier (MQ) than Art!


Enter through the gate next to the Red Chestnut tree.

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The englassed passageway next to the exhibition halls of the Leopold Museum houses a Café well-known for its delicious breakfast and brunch offerings on weekends.

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Reflecting pool next to the Leopold Museum and the former Winter Riding Hall (now Halls E + G).

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Tourists and Viennese (mostly students) relaxing at the terrace of the Café-Restaurant "Kantine" in front of the "quartier21" Building.

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“Aloha” next to the Museum of modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK).

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Boule players next to the MUMOK.

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"No better divan need the Sultan require ... "
(William Makepeace Thackeray)

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I took all those pictures literally running through the museums plaza but I had to stop and catch those smiles. First time around I cut their heads off. No matter, try again, I thought: And they kept on smiling! :-)
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Peonies at Café Una

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Café Una is one of my favorite places in Vienna:
Café-Restaurant ´UNA´
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
(in the Museumsquartier)

80 000 weiße Rosen gegen das Vergessen

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Last week, on "National Day of Remembrance Against Violence and Racism" and as part of a history project throughout Austrian Schools, 80 000 white roses were placed at sites throughout Austria where Holocaust victims used to live.

I went to St. Stephan's Square the night before where the roses were first assembled to form a memorial and later tagged with their names and addresses before they were carried to the places where the Austrian Holocaust victims used to live. The 80 000 roses project grew out of a history-project in Austrian schools: Students research with their teachers the life stories of victims and survivors of the NS-Regime in Austria. *)

On the morning of May 6 I found two of those roses at the portal of my apartment building. (I have done some research in the meantime: Those two roses are meant to remember a husband and wife who managed to leave Austria in 1939. According to a relative, the wife died in the Seventies.)


*) For more information about this project at "A Letter to the Stars" and/or to this newspaper article in the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse”: Blumen der Erinnerung.
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Evanescing Shades of Lavender

Evening Symphony in Lavender:
Nightfall in Vienna on the First Day of May.

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Flowering Lilac at Heldenplatz

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View from Heldenplatz towards Burgtheater.

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Burgtheater

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New Moon over the Rathaus

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Viennese Entryways

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Stephansplatz 5a

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Café Tirolerhof, Führichgasse 8

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Am Heumarkt 13.

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Café Karlsplatz in the Otto-Wagner-Pavillion

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