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Walking Tour # 6

More pictures from my adveuntries with Michael, Julie, Mom and Grandma can be found here .  False reports today led me to believe that it would be sunny and warm. Thanks a lot.  But now I can just look outside at the grey sky, drink my Almdudler - and everything will be just fine.  Favorite Things about Today's Adventure on Walking Tour 6 with Rebekah:  Pascualati Haus:  This is the site where Beethoven composed many great works, including his only opera, Fidelio . It had a lovely view toward Votivkirche and Universitaet Wien (I don't really know if those structures were up at the time Beethoven lived there). There was a small museum with a pianoforte (it had 5 pedals on it!!), some manuscript facsimilies of Beethoven's music, recordings of several of his works, some busts... but you can see for yourself by going here: PICTURES! Votivkirche: This Neo-Gothic edifice was beautiful and tranquil. It is surrounded by Freud Park (yep, named after the one and only Sigmund Freud. V...

Turning Twenty in Prague

I was in love with Klosterneuberg at the beginning of this week, and now I think Prague may just have stolen the title. It was that amazing. So, we missed our first train to Prague due to inconsistencies in some of the S-bahns in Vienna (GEE WIZ!)- but four of our group left for Prague at 1:58 and the other six of us left at 3:58. In the meantime, we explored the art in the Upper Belvedere Palace, which was probably my favorite art collection that I've seen since coming to Vienna (and that's saying something, since I have seen TONS!). They had the old, and the new... let me see... "Tod und Ma:dchen" (Death and Maiden) by Egon Schiele (1915) (I'm singing a song called "Der Tod und das Ma:dchen by Schubert right now so I thought it was very fitting) "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt (1907) Hilde und Franzi Matsch, Children of the Artist, by Franz Matsch (1901) "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" by Gustav Klimt (1907) "Landschaft bei Meisenbach...