Monday 2 March 2015

Vienna's Spring starts early
Schanigarten Season has officially begun!


Outdoor's where the Action is
As of yesterday, the first of March,
tables and chairs are back on public sidewalks
outside Viennese cafés and restaurants

Kleines Café
Franziskanerplatz
© by Merisi
Link:
-> About Schanigarten at Wikipedia:
Schanigarten is the Austro-Bavarian term for tables and chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of eating and drinking places. Unlike normal beer gardens (Gastgärten), the customers actually sit on public property.

15 comments:

  1. As far as I understand, outdoor gardens of cafes and restaurants on privately owned land can be kept open (or not) year round. There are also market areas and the like that have outdoor tables through all the seasons.
    The Schanigarten season refers only to sidewalk cafes on public property. Some of them also take up parking spaces on streets. There's always concern and debate about various aspects of the private use of public space.

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  2. Wonderful - I wholeheartedly approve of this, and it's a new word for my vocabulary :)

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  3. Great image. I have been in the Kleines Cafe during my stay in Vienna. Really great spot.

    Mersad
    Mersad Donko Photography

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    1. Thank you!
      And yes, lovely cafe and square!

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  4. Happy Schanigarten season!

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  5. How very exciting! Still snowy here!
    ox

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    1. L has already seen cherry blossoms in her neighborhood!
      I hope winter moves away from the East Coast and up to the North Pole soon, Elisabeth.

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  6. We won't see the tables and chairs out on terraces for at least five more weeks. If not longer, given that there's no hint of spring anytime soon.

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    1. Viennese are rather hardy, weatherwise. They even eat and drink outside in freezing conditions. ;-)

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  7. What a great way to announce that spring is here!

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    1. As the saying goes, when tables and chair begin to show up outside, spring MUST be here any moment. ;-)

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  8. It is so nice to see the first signs of spring, even if they are very far from home! We're still covered in snow :(

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    1. I read the weather reports up and down the East Coast and empathize with your plight!
      May spring win over winter soon, everywhere.

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