First Monday in Vienna
Hello dear friends and family,
We the day working... running errands, because tomorrow's another holiday and then.... THEN we went to THE cafe - Cafe Central (http://www.palaisevents.at/index.php?id=cafecentral&L=). The oldest cafe in Austria and supposedly the oldest in Europe (2nd to one in Venice). Long story short... Vienna got its coffee from the Turks (that's why it's so good)... they built this cafe for their beloved coffee.. the Nazis destroyed it and converted it into a basketball court for some time.. then finally it was rebuilt to match it's original predecessor. We were fortunate to be there during the piano playing too! Amanda and I had delicious koffees... I had the Koffee Amadeus and Sean had the famous Melange... we all partook in the apple streudle.
A few more fun tidbits:
Key regulars included Peter Altenberg, Egon Friedell, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Anton Kuh, Adolf Loos, Leo Perutz, and Alfred Polgar.
Until 1938 the café was called the "Chess school" (Die Schachhochschule) because of the presence of many chess players.
The Vienna Circle of logical positivists held many meetings before and after World War I.
A well-known story states that an Austrian politician, asked about the possibility of a revolution in Russia, remarked sarcastically: "Who is going to make a revolution? Perhaps that Trotsky from the Café Central?"
Oh, btw, we went to an AMAZING museum yesterday -- couldn't take photos though, but you should definitely check it out:
http://www.mumok.at/
Video / sound from Cafe Central
Cafe Central:
One of many statues outside Hofburg Palace where we're lucky to walk each day:
Rathaus at night... blurry.
Parliament Building... blurry...
Sean outside another of the many points in the Hofburg Palace:
We the day working... running errands, because tomorrow's another holiday and then.... THEN we went to THE cafe - Cafe Central (http://www.palaisevents.at/index.php?id=cafecentral&L=). The oldest cafe in Austria and supposedly the oldest in Europe (2nd to one in Venice). Long story short... Vienna got its coffee from the Turks (that's why it's so good)... they built this cafe for their beloved coffee.. the Nazis destroyed it and converted it into a basketball court for some time.. then finally it was rebuilt to match it's original predecessor. We were fortunate to be there during the piano playing too! Amanda and I had delicious koffees... I had the Koffee Amadeus and Sean had the famous Melange... we all partook in the apple streudle.
A few more fun tidbits:
Key regulars included Peter Altenberg, Egon Friedell, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Anton Kuh, Adolf Loos, Leo Perutz, and Alfred Polgar.
Until 1938 the café was called the "Chess school" (Die Schachhochschule) because of the presence of many chess players.
The Vienna Circle of logical positivists held many meetings before and after World War I.
A well-known story states that an Austrian politician, asked about the possibility of a revolution in Russia, remarked sarcastically: "Who is going to make a revolution? Perhaps that Trotsky from the Café Central?"
Oh, btw, we went to an AMAZING museum yesterday -- couldn't take photos though, but you should definitely check it out:
http://www.mumok.at/
Video / sound from Cafe Central
Cafe Central:
One of many statues outside Hofburg Palace where we're lucky to walk each day:
Rathaus at night... blurry.
Parliament Building... blurry...
Sean outside another of the many points in the Hofburg Palace:
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