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#vienna

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This weekend in #Vienna, my daughter and I walked through the Hofburg palace area, with its imposing buildings.

I told her "the emperors built all this", and she replied "you mean 'they had this built', right? It's not like they actually got their hands dirty."

I'm so proud 🥰

Today in Labor History March 31, 1913: The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music. The audience was shocked and offended by the weird music by Schoenberg, Berg, Zemlinsky, and von Webern. Their violent rioting forced a premature end to the concert, which became known as the Skandalkonzert (scandal concert).

Replied to Rocketman

@slothrop Having been to Vienna, I strongly second this.

The metro trains run every 5 minutes or better, and likewise trams. They're incredibly punctual.

And no, Americans reading this, that's not a typo.

Almost every destination you'll want to see is either near a metro station or a tram stop.

Belvedere palace? Tram stop. Schonbrunn palace? Metro. St Stephen's Cathedral/Stephensplatz? Metro. Museum district? Metro.

Many parts of the city centre have been pedestrianised.

But aside from all that, especially if you're from the US, Venna almost certainly has better public transport than your hometown.

And I think part of the Vienna experience is being in a city with world-class public transport.

#Tram#Train#Austria

Weird how the city authorities will allow several block-lengths of on street parking in Neu-Gersthof to be blocked off for days on end while a film unit films a biopic of Bruno Kreisky but every time someone suggests simply removing the parking spaces along the part of Währinger Str. where parked cars outside shops block the main tram route hundreds of times every year to improve tram service for everyone parking spaces are suddenly sacred and untouchable things because the economy will collapse immediately if people can't park right outside DM. Yes, they keep cranking up the fines, but the cars still block the trams. #vienna #wien