Last day in Vienna

Today the first thing I had planned was see the tombs of the former Hafsburg rulers. The whole city here pretty much revolves around the Hafsburg monarchy the was present here for 600 years up until 1918. If you dont know much (or anything in my case) about Hafsburg rulers, Vienna might not be the place for you. The assasination of the Hafburgs is one of the things that led to WWI. Vienna is filled with art from all places, cappecino houses, and monarchies from years past. Things would be much more interesting if I had the faintest idea about any of these. But about the only thing I found interesting about the Hafsburg rulers was that there dead and entombed for me to see at the bargain value price of 3 euros (4.50 dollars). That is as cheap as the entrances get here, so that decided it for me.

Well the tombs were large, overdone, and the size of a truck (see above). I like the sculpture of the skulls and angels all over them, but that is about all I could get into. I was there about 15 minutes and took off for the living. I had wanted to goto a Mozart concert here--they were playing the marriage of Figaro in THE opera house mozart had his first composition. I told myself it would be worth the expense if I could find a date, but unless one comes in here and sets on my lap in the next 15 minutes, I am not going to make it. It tough to get a date on a Monday, at least for foreigner who speaks about a 100 words of the local language (german). So, no date for me--or classical opera house set in the schonebraum castle.

I went walking down the Danube river and then got lost. I was able to make it back to the city after an hour or two though. Here is a short video of my lunch out on the 'Blue Danube'.

http://www.mosteal.com/video/Vienna.wmv

Some other pics of vienna are here:

http://photos.yahoo.com/mosteal