The Vice in Vienna

On Saturday afternoon I rolled in Vienna tired, sore, and hungry. By the time I figured out how to get across town on foot to my youth hostel, I was even more so and ended up eating hungarian goulash at the hostel and sleeping four hours for a nap. Hungarian goulash consists of one part salt, and one part braised beef, or seemed to taste like it. I needed copious amounts of water to wash it down. For the night plans, I decided to try a night club called Flex. It consists of a underground bunker that was once a subway station.

Flex lies alongside the infamous Danube river. But let me tell you, from the looks of the brown and brackish water, its been a long time since the song of 'Blue Danube' had any significance. Not helping are the piles glass beer bottles crashing off the cement banks from the Flex patrons. It was in a seedy neighborhood with some seedy inhabitants. One man that strolled by had a second-hand overcoat, half-shaved head, buddy holly glasses with scrubs and hospitals slippers to round it out.

As bad as the club sounds, it turns out it is pretty famous. A couple I met inside was from Munich and they were saying it is quite a landmark in Vienna. Much the way First Avenue is in Minneapolis is my guess. The music was not really my style--it was a mix of undancable techno, big bass with super fast hip-hop. The only ones that were trying to dance to it were 18 yr old punks who seemed to flop around more than dance. Everytime danceable beat came up the DJs would switch the rhythm and the whole crowd would stop. Not very good in my opinion. Drugs were everywhere with 'backpack patrons' in the bathrooms. All in all, it was quite the experience.

Today, I got another camera and will be posting some new pics soon. Its tough to get in the Art seen here in Vienna, when you don't know a damn thing about it, which is 90% of the museums here. I seen two museums today, which is enough for me in any given day. One was the archeological finds of a roman city that dated from the first century. The other was the armor and weapons from medieval and renaissance time periods. The steel armor is great--I kept telling myself that I am going to get some. That is sure to impress the ladies.

With today being Sunday, everything is closed or only open til 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so it will be a day to rest a little and do some reading. Only thing open late here are McDonalds.