The Off Topic Topic

[Lettow77]

Lettow, I believe you're into history? Consider a trip to the Schatzkammer which houses the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs. Military museum is ok, but not too spectacular. Walking around the Inner City is nice. You could also go to Kapuzinergruft, where the Habsburg emperors are buried. The Kunsthistorisches Museum is nice, but you might spend half a day there between paintings, sculptures and ancient artifacts. Not the Louvre, but decent.

When are you guys flying in? I need to check my schedule.

Thanks for your help, and MiM also! I imagine we'll be there tomorrow, or the day after. I think the Schatzkammer sounds very interesting.

[Barrister]

Lettow, I believe you're into history? Consider a trip to the Schatzkammer which houses the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburgs. Military museum is ok, but not too spectacular. Walking around the Inner City is nice. You could also go to Kapuzinergruft, where the Habsburg emperors are buried. The Kunsthistorisches Museum is nice, but you might spend half a day there between paintings, sculptures and ancient artifacts. Not the Louvre, but decent.

When are you guys flying in? I need to check my schedule.

Thanks for your help, and MiM also! I imagine we'll be there tomorrow, or the day after. I think the Schatzkammer sounds very interesting.

Schatzkammer was interesting, but the Kunsthistorisches was where it was at for pure history nerd nirvana.

[derspiess]

I'll send you some of our neighborhood coyotes.  They ought to help with any rabbit problem.

You know, I don't remember the coyotes being such a problem when I was a kid. My father in law keeps a rifle by the back door now because they keep showing up.

I don't remember coyotes being in Ohio (or WV) at all when I was a kid.  They're not native to Ohio, and spread east of the Mississippi because there were no longer wolves out West keeping them in check.  At least that's what I read.

[jimmy olsen]

My kids plot in French, which I still don't understand. Or that weird twin telepathy.

How'd they learn? Just picked up while in country?

[Ed Anger]

I enlisted them in the Young Guard.

[MadImmortalMan]

Schatzkammer was interesting, but the Kunsthistorisches was where it was at for pure history nerd nirvana.

Did you see the exhibit downstairs about the temple of Artemis? That was cool. I wanted to start setting up division counters all over the scale model of Ephesus.   

[Syt]

Thanks for your help, and MiM also! I imagine we'll be there tomorrow, or the day after. I think the Schatzkammer sounds very interesting.

Ouch, that's a bit of short notice. I'll be pretty busy this weekend. For how long will you be in Vienna?


MiM, I think the Artemis Temple diorama is in the Hofburg (where they keep the suits of armor), not KHM. Duque and I were in Hofburg early one morning, all by ourselves. It was a bit eerie to be alone in that huge hall. For a while we weren't sure if we were supposed to be there or if we had strayed from the path.

[Lettow77]

 I suppose a couple to a few days- there is certainly no itinerary. It's quite understandable if you are busy on such absurd notice. I was initially reluctant to come to Vienna, but Munich has caused me to re-assess my opinion of Germanic law and order and its capacity to reign in the excesses of the various unfortunate elements that are inevitable in large European cities.

[Syt]

In that case don't visit 10th, 15th or 16th district with its high immigration numbers. (1/2 of the people in Vienna are immigrants or the children of immigrants )

[MadImmortalMan]

MiM, I think the Artemis Temple diorama is in the Hofburg (where they keep the suits of armor), not KHM.

Well then I stand corrected. Go to the Hofburg, but don't spend any time in the china cabinet. 


Oh, and I was paying thirty euros a pop for the museum because there were two of us. Not per person. Fifteen per person is more like it.

[Syt]

There are some special tickets that give you a rebate to visit several museums. Best to check the webpage of the museums you're interested in (I think there's a combo ticket for Hofburg, KHM and Schatzkammer, for example).

[garbon]

Oh, and I was paying thirty euros a pop for the museum because there were two of us. Not per person. Fifteen per person is more like it.

Ah, okay. I was like did they manage to hoodwink MIM?

[Syt]

AC/DC have set a new record for the largest concert ever held in Austria: 115,000 people in attendance.

[Josephus]

Israel's new justice minister is kinda hawt

[Razgovory]

Raz makes another step in the inexorable journey toward employment!