My boss at Rockefeller sent me (not unwillingly) to Vienna to talk to his
colleague Cesare
Marchetti at the International
Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). What a gorgeous place!
IIASA is housed in the former summer palace of the Hapsburgs in the quiet
village of Laxenburg, just outside of Vienna. Walking between buildings I
could smell the distant scent of burning wood.
The Secession, which houses Gustav Klimt's Beethoven frieze
Statues at Schönbrunn Palace
Dusk in the
Schönbrunn Palace gardens
A pharmacy in Vienna, near St. Stephansplatz. Needless to say, you'll never
see that on a Walgreen's.
I thought maybe they lit up St. Stephen's Cathedral like they do the Empire
State Building in New York. Then I arrived at Stephansplatz and found out
it was just a really big ad. Restoring 500-year-old Gothic cathedrals ain't
cheap, I suppose. That's a lot of nooks and crannies to scrub!
Just say OV: somewhat north of the Stephansplatz are some of the better preserved
parts of Old Vienna.