Well, after Budapest there was a whole bunch of sitting in trains, frantic searching the interwebs trying to find a place to sleep in next day, being sick half of the time and general aimless walking around. I didn’t do a lot of picture taking… Perhaps because I was distracted, or maybe overwhelmed. Most of the time I just felt I could not get that “special” shot – everything was so new to me and there was no time to look for an interesting perspective.
Nevertheless, there are enough of them to warrant a few blog posts, so here we go.
Vienna, I have to say, the whole city felt like a doll house to me, somehow uncomfortably sterile.
I did appreciate the efficiency of it, but somehow it didn’t feel lived in. Maybe its because in the cities I lived in – Vilnius, Budapest, Kiev, you get used to the layers of dust and the crumbling faces of buildings, and the litter on the side walks. And the absence of all this somehow makes a city feel more unnatural than anything else.
Maybe a part of the mood was the fact that I was still powering though a cold that I caught in Kiev.
Innsbruck, a small town near some amazingly tall mountains. If not for the weather, would have definitely stayed there for longer and hiked in the beautiful mountains. I hope some day I can return and do just that.
Munich. It was not what I expected at all. Maybe to many women wearing burqa, as if someone teleported the population of Kabul into this traditional looking German city.
Although I did manage to stumble upon a very nice and very German “museum of things” mostly dedicated to the more interesting consumerism and technological artefacts of the 20th century. Like this beautiful rotary air plane engine.
Near the museum there was a small building, like a chapel, containing one huge granite ball and nothing else. No idea what the purpose behind it was.
bureau of secret tourism 