Wien, 2026

A long weekend in Vienna, with M, Si and B. Mostly to spend a weekend together; we don't meet often enough. But also to relax, see Vienna, and also to see some sights associated with M's family history, specifically her father's.

There was a  climbing wall nearby but I didn't visit; sort-of I wasn't in the mood; I'd just finished quite a bit of climbing and was feeling a bit tired (but I did push myself to go running, good).

My pix are here, but beware they are mostly art, from the Kunsthistoriches Museum, the Nat Hist, the Leopold and the Belvedere.

My main pic makes the unoriginal observation that graffiti is the art of our times. I notice, now, that I haven't chosen to inline any of the "proper" art. Well, it is hard to choose between them.

My second pic makes the equally unoriginal observation that I have a thing for rude pictures. Ah well.

That's from a sarcophagus; of nes-schu-tefnut, around 300 BC says the label, but it doesn't tell you anything about the scenes carved so beautifuly into it. I recall seeing it before; possibly from a couple of EGU visits in 2006 and 2007, but quite possibly from when I went though in 1986 on the way to Budapest.

I was formerly doubtful about Egon Schiele's, but am now quite converted: they are good.

We also chanced across a political protest, near the Dom. Initially I assumed it was the usual idiots, but no, it was pro-Iranian-monarchy. Well, good luck to them. A curious feature was the absence of any police.