Vienna





I escaped from my conference for an afternoon to see the city.  This park had statues of waltz-meister Johann Strauss (above) and Franz Schubert, along with a cafe that blasted mindless dance pop.





Water emerges from an underground channel - a heron fished just downstream.





I mostly just rode one of the cheap city bikes around town, didn't go inside much.  Empress Maria Theresia is immortalized in front of the natural history museum.





Waiting in a line of dozens of horse-drawn carriages, a driver chats on his cell phone.





Big church with an unconventional roof.





The second part of my ride took my through the wooded section of Prater (near my hotel/conference) and then over the Danube.





Prater is also home to an amusement park.




This piggy bank ATM actually oinked at passers-by.





Night view of the ferris wheels from my top-floor hotel room.