BSD Vienna more

22 May

Almost finished with the Vienna portion, a comment made with mixed
feelings. I liked Vienna, mostly for the atmosphere and architecture. Good
city to roam but am ready to get back on the road and see the smaller
locals. Much of the rest of the trip is yet t be planned but the next
stage is decided as we have tickets.

Train to Dresden, then bike Berlin via the Elbe and other routes. Then
from Berlin to at least Hamburg or possibly Cuxhaven before turning South
for the final legs.

The eeePC has been a real pain. Continual problems with their disk space
management. Reporting errors that are not real and then requiring me to
unplug all devices, remove the battery and reboot – all compliments of an
excellent eeePC user forum. Have used only about 12% of the alloted space
but cannot often remove or save files. May well be out of iodes as well.
The net connection, at least for me, has been working well on the eeePC so
that part is a plus.

Just put up three days of pictures on the flickr site. Has taken me three
days to get the eeePC to the state that I can again upload; more problems
are expected as I do not believe I have fixed the root problem – nor have
others.

The pics are not in the order that they were taken (I did not fuss with the
photo uploader ) so Vienna is two to three screens in. Have attacked a few
just as examples.

Off to a great breakfast in the hotel, then to museums and palaces and
cafes. Last night, pic included, George purchased the original Sacher
Torte from Sacher as well as the the one from Dremel (see google for the
story of their decade long legal battle over where the apricot should go,
under the frosting or between the layers, and who gets to use the word
original).

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BSD. Vienna gulash

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BSD hotel belverdere

What! You mean you don't have the whole place?

Are George and Michelle going cheap on you?
Dee

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BSD hotel belverdere

21 May

Museum and palace wandering.
Klimt. Egon S as well as the usual impressionists.

Met young couple with two youngins, they were on a 5 month adventure. Took 7 year out of school and having him write and blog a book as education. 4 yes old gets tutored. Early Dell employees. Met all in hot tub.

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BSD Vienna dinner

George and Michelle seem quite subdued. Are you feeding them enough?
Libby

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BSD Vienna qb

May 17, 2008 catching up on a post

The Sacking Krewe closes in on its Part One objective: a half-days ride from
Vienna. New and impossible-to-value plunder includes two cakes of soap and a
new plastic soap dish. The team is ecstatic.

Sponsered by Tip Top Tea (The Tea of Record). Our Centurion Blend has been
feared and revered since the last days of the HRE.

Arrived in Tulln today. Warm, flat, buggy ride.

Another city celebrating its Roman past with some leftover pieces of
buildings and a statue of Marcus Aurelius. He also has his own park with
gazebo.

Tulln has an Egon Schiele museum (he was a homie), and a garden with
mosquito ponds. There is an elaborate statue (see photo) of characters from
the Ring complete with fountain.

There is no such thing as just a cookie in this part of the world. The
kokaskuppel (see fig 1), looks like an innocent meringue with a bit of
chocolate on the bottom. But nein! The meringue is mixed with nuts and
coconut. The inside is shredded coconut mixed with cream or marshmallow
(cocoflutter) and the bottom is coated in chocolate with chocolate creme
inside. Our teeth are disintegrating.

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BSD Vienna

18 May

Big Abby, mostly closed to public, with large library.

Made it to Vienna! Some proof in the pic. Great hotel, really great. Only
flaw, so far, is that the Jaccuzzi is at a tepid 38 C.

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BSD Tulln

Brothers Grimm for the fairy tales?

The sheep look pretty laid back – or layed down. Were they blocking the
road? Or just waiting to assault passing travelers? Do they carry knives?
Some sheep can be very dangerous, you know!

Herr BoogStein is looking very slim and trim. Biking certainly seems to
agree with you!

Judi

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, wrote:

> 17 May
>
> First off, the city name is not a miss spelling.
>
> Unlike the Wachau today is a quiet ride with no towns at all in the
> previous 25 km. Found a coffee stop. Also saw their equivalent to a
> lemonade stand.
>
> Lunch in Tulln: Japanese restaurant. Against the advice of the QB I took
> the sushi bento. She took the safe salmon terriaki. Good to have a break
> and some not greasy rice.
>
> Homework: we are now at the edge of the Weiner Wald, the Vienna Woods.
> Which fairy tales are based on or come from this location?
>
> About 5 minutes away by foot is the birthplace and museum of Egon schiele.
> Good small museum with a number of his works, I liked the impressionist
> ones and thought many of the portraits and others looked like paint by
> numbers.
>
> Bonus question. We are signs to the Minorite churches and Klosters. Who are
> or were the
> Minorites?
>
> Today we have a two bedroom sopartment right on the river and the Roman
> tower. Lots of space in a fine small hotel, word used lightly. No CNN or in
> room net and shower has no curtain, mostly the sitzbath variety.
>
>
>
>

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BSD Tulln

17 May

First off, the city name is not a miss spelling.

Unlike the Wachau today is a quiet ride with no towns at all in the previous 25 km. Found a coffee stop. Also saw their equivalent to a lemonade stand.

Lunch in Tulln: Japanese restaurant. Against the advice of the QB I took the sushi bento. She took the safe salmon terriaki. Good to have a break and some not greasy rice.

Homework: we are now at the edge of the Weiner Wald, the Vienna Woods. Which fairy tales are based on or come from this location?

About 5 minutes away by foot is the birthplace and museum of Egon schiele. Good small museum with a number of his works, I liked the impressionist ones and thought many of the portraits and others looked like paint by numbers.

Bonus question. We are signs to the Minorite churches and Klosters. Who are or were the
Minorites?

Today we have a two bedroom sopartment right on the river and the Roman tower. Lots of space in a fine small hotel, word used lightly. No CNN or in room net and shower has no curtain, mostly the sitzbath variety.

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