It Means Nothing to Me....Ohhh

Vienna is the most beautiful city I have ever visited. We arrived and checked into the Ruthenteiner Hostel. It's a really good place, I would highly recommend it. We spent the first evening catching up with washing and having a few beers in the bar. There were some Koreans staying in the hostel, and it was cool just listening to what they had to say; mainly that it was difficult to eat food with a knife and fork. They also missed kimchi and green tea. Anyway...

The next day we headed into the city to the Belvedere Museum, which houses The Kiss by Klimt, as well as many other famous paintings. It turned out to be a bit of a mission. The map we had was not very good. It was spread over two pages and the roads didn't really correspond to anything at street level. After about 6kms and 3 hours walking around, we finally stumbled on what can be only described as one of the world's largest museums! It is beautiful. There was a temporary exhibit by an Austrian artist called Oskar Kokoscha. He did a piece called The Doll in which he had a doll maker make a 'lifelike' doll of his estranged lover, Alma Mahler. He then used this figure and photographed it in different, quite perverse, poses. It's even said that he took the doll to the opera!. The results are quite frightening as I'm sure you'll agree.


"Where's the Klimt?"

After lunch, we felt refreshed, so we just walked all around the city. We saw the theatres, the university, the parliment, the cathedral and many wonderful churches. That night, we feasted on cheap (but good) wine, bread, cheese and ham. The next morning we set of at about 10, as we had a train to catch to Budapest!