Gary presenting at DIMVA 2005 (photo coutesy of DIMVA 2005).
Me presenting at DIMVA 2005 (photo courtesy of DIMVA 2005.
One of the first things we saw was Karlskirche, a baroque church promised to the people by Karl VI during the 1713 plague.
Me in front of the Hofburg. That's a statue of Prince Eugene behind me. The statue and the building are actually very large, they just look small in this picture because I was standing so close to the camera.
There was a rumor that Gary and I went back to the hotel and slept and skipped out on the conference reception at the Rathaus. Here's proof that we went.
Niether of us remember seeing the Votivkirche, except from a distance, but we have a picture of it so we must have just forgotten it since we squeezed so much into just a few days.
We took a train south to Baden for a day and walked around the town and then also walked around in the woods. Baden was really nice. At the end of the day we sat at a cafe and drank some very good Hefeweizen named Schneider Weisse.
Gary singing at the Opera House.
We were attacked by birds in the Schonnburg gardens in front of the Schonnburg palace.
We climbed 350 steps up the south tower of the Stephansdom. Or was it the north tower? Anyway, it's the one you see me standing on while Gary takes a picture from the ground.
Votivskirche again? We must not remember seeing that up close since we drank some Hirter, which is a light lager that has been brewed in Austria since the 1200s and is dangerously smooth.
Both of us ranked the Belvedere gardens among our favorite things that we saw. The statues and landscaping are so much more artistic than the Schonnburg gardens, and there were no birds that were hopped up on something.