We're sitting in a train, traveling at 200kmh, on our way to Munich. Mind you the only way to tell how fast we're going is to see the indicator in the train. This train has wi-fi so I can write this while checking the quite beautiful scenery whizzing past.
Yesterday we saw some more of Vienna including the Ephesus Museum (not too exciting) and the Vienna Art History Museum which has an excellent collection of Bruegel paintings. In fact I think they have nearly all the paintings that used to be popular (or still are) as prints - The Winter Hunt, The Tower of Babel, Peasants' Dance, On the Way to the Crucifixion, Slaughter of the Innocents.
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Frieze From Ephesus |
In the evening we went to a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro - written in Vienna in the 1780s. It was held in the Theatre at Schloss Schoenbrunn, a huge palace to the south of Vienna's centre. The theatre is only small so we had to twist sideways to see the stage and even then couldn't see one side of it, but the singers were excellent and the small orchestra did a great job. Of course it was in Italian so we couldn't understand a word but fortunately we'd checked out the story line on Wikipedia beforehand.
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Schonbrunn Palace Theatre |
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Schonbrunn Palace Theatre |
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View from train from Vienna to Munich |
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