i've been playing around with the idea of traveling to salzburg, but after today i only have two days left in vienna, and i didn't want to take that amount of time out of the city, so this morning i conveniently came up with a new idea...i hopped on a train (god i love europe. where else would the complete lack of a car not mean i was trapped within a city? life in baltimore would suddenly seem so much more convenient if i could get out to towson without having to take my life into my own hands to try and figure out the bus schedule) and headed down to mödling, which boasts the schönberg-haus.
i have to say, i had more fun hamming it up and taking pictures while waiting for the train than actually walking around mödling (don't worry, the platform was empty). i've been in a really excellent mood all day, even though, like i said, i wasn't feeling too good, AND i got lost like three times in mödling, AND the schönberg-haus was pretty lame AND i could not for the life of me find decent vegetarian food for lunch in that town AND my feet hurt! but mödling is totally cute and really beautiful, and i saw a snail!
and then i zipped back to vienna (i really, really like vienna) and went to the haus der musik, hamming it up for even more pictures....i wish i bought my camera cord and could show you all now, but i'll post the pictures when i get back. like i said, i was in a bizarre mood. i hit on leonard bernstein's suit. ;) i've totally made it past that awkward feeling of traveling alone, and have discovered that if you just treat whatever you have with you (a book, a water bottle, whatev) as a traveling companion, it's a lot more fun.
no, i'm not totally off my rocker, but it seems better to take a picture of yourself holding something up to the camera (or pointing to an austrian snail) than it is of just your face. i've gotten tired of my own face.
i'm at the point where i'm getting a little homesick now...but i really don't want to leave vienna. i absolutely love it here. i wish the people in my life were also here, or that vienna could suddenly appear in the states (and contain real iced coffee. really, folks. the first thing i'm gonna do tuesday morning is sit in donna's and drink enough iced coffee to float me back to my house).
i'm absolutely exhausted! tomorrow i think i'll do a few museums just for pleasure, like the albertina or the austrian national art museum (one of the ones around here has a bruegel AND a bosch...yum!), and sunday i'll venture out to zentralfriedhof and say goodbye to dead guys (namely, mozart, beethoven, schönberg, schubert, etc).
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