Friday 26 September 2008

Lunch Hour in Leopoldstadt


3/4 Takt Café Restaurant
Praterstrasse
Vienna. Where else?

Harley-Davidson Parking
"spezerei"
Wine Deli Bar
Karmeliterplatz

Recycle What?
Waste paper containers and bill board girl
Rotensterngasse

A Romy Schneider Portrait
Retrospective at the Film Archiv Austria
Grosse Pfarrgasse

Palais Augarten
Home of the Vienna Boys' Choir and the
Viennese Porcelain Manufactury
Obere Augartenstrasse

A Viennese Melange
Served with a slice of "Besoffener Kapuziner"
("Drunken Capuchin Monk")
Grosse Pfarrgasse

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Photographed
Friday, September 26
in the Second District
(Leopoldstadt)

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12 comments:

  1. Bonsoir Merisi !
    Tes photos sont toujours aussi jolies, et fantaissites...

    Romy ressemble beaucoup à la Sissi que je T'ai envoyée...
    A bientôt...

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  2. Just what I needed! That was a nice afternoon walk -- vielen dank!

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  3. Laughing at the idea of 3/4 Takt and the beauty of recycle!

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  4. I need some of that in the last picture and then I will probably need to take a walk in the second last picture. Now I just have to work out how to get into your wonderful photos!

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  5. Wish I was out riding that bike right now.

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  6. I love taking strolls through your world. That last photo has the best light--it's a Paris Breakfast painting, I think, waiting to happen. ;))

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  7. Webradio,
    have you seen the Sisi-Movies with Romy? She made a few of them, when she was very young.

    Steph,
    gern geschehen! :-)

    Seamus,
    Johann Strauss lived in the neighborhood, and even composed his "Blue Danube" waltz while living on Praterstrasse.

    Absolute vanilla,
    please share the trick with me, once you have figured it out! ;-)

    charles gramlich,
    is that a cool bike or what? ;-)

    A brush with color,
    merci! Carol's way too busy painting Parisian breakfasts! ;-)

    The light was poor yesterday, dull colors, no reflections whatsoever from a gray sky.

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  8. "Takt" is familiar to me only in "Lean Manufacturing" terms - not music - sorry! :)

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  9. Laughing at the cake name, Drunken Capuchin Monk. Looks good too.

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  10. Seamus,
    *smile*
    Well, that interpretation is truly funny! :-)

    3/4 Takt refers to the waltz's 3/4 time (the restaurant sign refers to the Viennese waltz, danced at a much faster pace than the original waltzes, which where more like slow motion twirls compared with the Viennese's speed).

    Cathy,
    growing up, my mom used to make a one, with farina, soaked in hard cider after baking. Nowadays, all I can find is the brown capuchin, made with walnuts and grated dark chocolate, then soaked in wine (the wine is heated with sugar and cinnamon sticks, the alcohol boiled off). It is a most delicious concoction. ;-)

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  11. Ooooooooooooo
    YAY!!!
    A cuppa and such a pretty one at that :)
    BIG MERCI

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  12. Beautiful sculptures, interesting shop fronts, coffee and cakes - I enjoyed my walk.

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