wien

 
me at the hundertwasser museum.. my favorite part of the trip to vienna.

before i get started, there are a lot of new pitures up now - about 30 for march on "lucas pix" and another 50 from vienna on "ph&bb pix", make a coffee and sit down a spell... (and auntie doris: please dont hurt your neck!)

in vienna, the streets are lined with huge neoclassical buildings.. the sidewalks are smooth and wide and the curbs low which makes them perfect for strollers. the people are also polite.. something i am unaccustomed to living in greece. the sidewalks here are crowded, uneven, and motorcycles park on them.. but i digress.

the highlights of our trip were: seeing the hundertwasser haus, and kunsthaus wien (the hundertwasser museum), the secessionists (viennese art nouveau movement), amazing cathedrals and parks, long walks, the GREEN danube.. i thought it was supposed to be BLUE!.. having dinner with eric our friend from athens who just moved back to paris. lunch with manolo, this was my first time meeting manolo, a college friend of ph, what a neat guy.. i left that lunch feeling like i really met somebody special.. and on top of that the food was good. and a dinner with vincent, ... a colleague & really nice guy who has a little girl 6 months older than lucas and living in toulouse.. we met him the first time in san francisco a few years ago.. and with him we had coffee at the frauenhuber, where mozart performed in cafe society.

and we only saw krish for one hour... when they arrived in vienna they went to a museum & dinner instead of seeing us... a huge disappointment, but what can you do?

lucas is a great traveler, he was perfect the whole time and really seemed to enjoy it actually. the only hitch was that he was waking up every 2 hours at night, i guess because we were bothering him -in the same room? , or maybe he needed reassurance?, but at least he went back to sleep easily each time. he loved the austrian food, and we only lost one pacifier.