Sunday, February 21, 2010

Vienna second part:

Vienna second part:

We spent the early morning visiting another art, painting Museums which was a combination of van go and impressionists and naturalist artist with small amount of modern art as well.
I could rate for classic ones and in this museum mostly were watercolors form German, Austrian artist in 18 century, which mostly were in miniature style but drawing so much admiration in way as such a long hours working on a small amount of landscapes creating with a high value.

As we were passing, we bumped into a Europe Royal Crypt museum which sounds funky and creepy, but it was like a palace inside, don’t me I can say as beautiful as visiting a palace fully furnished.

Each single coffin had its own decoration and metal work, mostly bronze, silver and some gold; but very artistic work on crowns, skulls designs, and body of the coffins with other elements which were so amazing. Basically, all of those Crypts where magnificent and showed the whole Europe empire in 18 and 19 centuries in fact.

Some might think what the point of going to so many is or these kinds of museums, but maybe it is me, I don’t know. I do love to spend time in nature and gardens as much as being inside of art, historical museums.

We tried to make a balance between our days and Monday was a day for Fine art museums which was closed so we had to hit the Natural, history museum which was enormous, 3 floors and over than 20 halls in each, we approximately spend 3 hours there.
I am not fan of history and prehistory, fossils and Darwin theory of human existence.

The museum was a great experience of discovering the whole earth shaping, from all kinds of Granit to other gems stone, including the smallest reptile to Dinosaurs and it was a great pleasure, in fact.

I did like, the imperial garden, although there were plenty of snow everywhere, but it was nice and such a massive place with all statues and monuments, cafĂ© bars, mazes to hang out and moreover, had a great bird’s-eye view of the entire city.

We spent our afternoon, evening valentine in a nice puppet show with Mozart music back ground and a pleasant dinner afterwards. that puppet show was telling a magical story of how a love affair story with the power of a magical flute and help of three angels reach t the climax and finally all the lovers will be forgiven and go back to their home.

That was really pity the show was in German and I could just get trough miming and gesture languets but still half pleasant of music and ambience and great vocals was worth visiting.
I must confess that I could finally control myself not to do so much shopping here at least, as the suitcase would explode the way back to Holland and to China as well, but there are a lot of tempting shops which drag you in with beautiful window decoration and so much stuff to encourage women to do shopping unconsciously.

We passed from ice skate rink and would nice to try a bit even I can’t do ice skating that much and a good excuse to try Hungarian sausages, which I advice, if you are in Germany or Austria you must try Schnitzel and sausages.

I do love to got to a nice concert here or opera or theater as well, but the prices are pretty high here, as we were passing by center of the city to reach to our museums we stumble by a church and found those commissionaires and one helped us to get a tickets for opera and ballet with concert include with a very reasonable price, and that was like such a gift in fact.
Now, I am looking forward to the show tonight which should be a good ending for Vienna before leaving towards Prague.

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