Vienna, 2007-03-16
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wiseheartWe were deadly tired on this day when we got up - despite 12 hours or so of sleep. But it didn't hinder us on going first to the Anker bakery to have breakfast, and then to go on our long, adventurous way to find the Vienna Coffee Museum.
For some reason I cannot really explain, I was very certain that I'd been in the street where the museum was supposed to be before. It turned out - I hadn't. But after a really... interesting epic quest, we finally found it.
Pretty house we saw on our quest:
The same house with Mum in front of it:
The Museum for Economics, inside which the Coffee Museum can be found:
Behind the glass, various coffee machines can be seen, made during the last 200 years or so. Also, there is a detailed history of Vienna coffee houses to read on the walls.
After the museum, we went to have coffee in one of the remaining Eduscho shops (as most of them have been closed after Tschibo had bought Eduscho - drat!). They always have a sale when you can have one piece of cake and the coffee of your choice for a relatively low price. We had Wiener Melange (the local version of Cappuccino) and vanilla-apricot cake, so lunch was taken care of.
A typcal Eduscho shop:
After that, we went looking for more DVDs for me, and some of the boxed sets I actually got 10 Euro cheaper than by Saturn in the Gerngross Department store. Yippeee!!! We took our stuff back to our hotel room, rested half an hour and then went back to the city centre, because Mum wanted to buy herself some china, with the Vienna Rose pattern. We went to the street called Graben, where no cars are allowed, just carts pulled by real horses.
Horse cart on the St. Peter's Square, near the Graben:
Graben, Meinl House:
Same house, from a different angle. This is the only remaining Juliue Meinl food shop, after the stupid younger generation has sold this once famous chain:
Graben, Trinity Column (erected as thanks for the ending of some big plague):
Mum then found herself a tiny, beautiful (and fairly expensive, but who am I to criticize other people's collecting passion?) vase with the pattern she wanted. The pic below shows a salat plate with the same pattern:
I realized that I'd messed up my timeline in the last entry. Actually, on 2007-03-15 we didn't dine in the restaurant. It was this evening. Below a few more pics about the Sünn-Hof and the little place itself:
Almost done. Stay tuned for Day #3!
For some reason I cannot really explain, I was very certain that I'd been in the street where the museum was supposed to be before. It turned out - I hadn't. But after a really... interesting epic quest, we finally found it.
Pretty house we saw on our quest:
The same house with Mum in front of it:
The Museum for Economics, inside which the Coffee Museum can be found:
Behind the glass, various coffee machines can be seen, made during the last 200 years or so. Also, there is a detailed history of Vienna coffee houses to read on the walls.
After the museum, we went to have coffee in one of the remaining Eduscho shops (as most of them have been closed after Tschibo had bought Eduscho - drat!). They always have a sale when you can have one piece of cake and the coffee of your choice for a relatively low price. We had Wiener Melange (the local version of Cappuccino) and vanilla-apricot cake, so lunch was taken care of.
A typcal Eduscho shop:
After that, we went looking for more DVDs for me, and some of the boxed sets I actually got 10 Euro cheaper than by Saturn in the Gerngross Department store. Yippeee!!! We took our stuff back to our hotel room, rested half an hour and then went back to the city centre, because Mum wanted to buy herself some china, with the Vienna Rose pattern. We went to the street called Graben, where no cars are allowed, just carts pulled by real horses.
Horse cart on the St. Peter's Square, near the Graben:
Graben, Meinl House:
Same house, from a different angle. This is the only remaining Juliue Meinl food shop, after the stupid younger generation has sold this once famous chain:
Graben, Trinity Column (erected as thanks for the ending of some big plague):
Mum then found herself a tiny, beautiful (and fairly expensive, but who am I to criticize other people's collecting passion?) vase with the pattern she wanted. The pic below shows a salat plate with the same pattern:
I realized that I'd messed up my timeline in the last entry. Actually, on 2007-03-15 we didn't dine in the restaurant. It was this evening. Below a few more pics about the Sünn-Hof and the little place itself:
Almost done. Stay tuned for Day #3!
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Date: 2007-03-20 03:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-20 03:16 pm (UTC)Your icon has a bad, bad effect on my coffee addiction, BTW. *g*
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Date: 2007-03-20 03:24 pm (UTC)Mine too!
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