Vienna Wanderings
“Vee must go to zee Sammlung Essl, darlink,” I told Amber in my best really bad Austrian accent. “Nice try,” she said. “You sound like a German Russian tourist.” “Danke,” I said and poured more coffee. It was early and we were eating scones, apparently less than common at the hotels Vienna Austria offers, and we enjoyed our morning repast. The Sammlung Essl houses a great deal of contemporary art and is relatively new and besides we can an ice cream when we are done right nearby. Actually, Vienna has a very high density of ice cream shops, the highest in Europe so it is said, and beer gardens, and, well, museums. We liked the clean white lines of the Sammlung; this private museum was designed by Heinz Tessar. We always like to drive in a new city and hired a car to take around, all this easier these days with Global Positioning Satellite receivers (or GPS) and wound up driving on the many labyrinthian one way strasses or streets, and of course we got hit a traffic jam, and we also took it out to the Sudosttangente which is known as motor-way A23. there we had a near death experience with a Peugeot and a tanker truck that were barreling down the A23 very fast. Abandoning the car we settled for the safety, if less freedom, of the public transit system, a system so good it was stunning, clean, efficient and extensive. The Metro is cool and a pass can be bought that you can use on all the buses, trams, subways, etc for days at a time. there are maps posted on the stops if you get lost (which we did) or you can get a look at a amp of Vienna Metro with this link.
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