An older man playing on a barrel organ is always an eye catcher for the younger and older ones, especially if the organ is in such a good shape as on this photo and the person behind looks and behaves like the typical organ player.
There is fantasy without borders for building Christmas trees from different materials. We have a white one built from paper and plastic, artfully crafted, looks really cool beside the real one. Also this one on the photo looks interesting. Hand made from glass jewelry it shines in bright light.
… so it is obligatory for Austrians to visit a Christmas market. The biggest one is in front of the town hall in Vienna, with dozens of booths, sculptures and a skating ground.
I think you see pipe organs only in churches, the same is true with this one in the Karlskirche, Vienna. It was built in the Baroque. The whole complex is a synthesis of art, with all the surrounding ornaments and structures.
Occasionally I visit the Viennese “Graffiti Mile” looking for new paintings. This “new” interpretation of a portrait of Sigmund Freud looks interesting and is far away from conservative 🙂 That’s the freedom of art.
The Albertina of Vienna ist not only an exhibition centre of great painters and photographers, there’s also a visitors’ way through the magnificent rooms of the House of Habsburg, an influential royal house of Austria and Europe. Those rooms were built from 1802 – 1822. It’s always funny how relatively tiny the beds, tables and chairs at those times have been, back then probably people have been a bit smaller than now. 🙂
As we saw those light mugs we immediately knew that would be an ideal fit for our terrace. Since we switched to electrical candles some months ago, we will have steady light during the nights. The vendor was a man from Berlin who crafted all those hanging exhibits by hand.
Diversity on Christmas markets is growing, beside the classical market stalls which sell candles, Christmas balls, gloves and caps you’ll see more and more exotic ones, like here in Vienna with African products …
“And I think it’s gonna be a long, long, time …. ‘Til touchdown brings me ’round again to find … I’m a rocket man “ … latest with this song the whole audience jumped off their seats and celebrated this great artitst, perfect performance, music, video walls and the songs most of us love 🙂
This was the end of the photo walk, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. We started at the exhibition center of “Messe Ried” in the second district in Vienna and went about 3 miles where we took hundreds of photos. It was already night so a tripod was a must, and it was interesting to see the different photo equipments of the other team mates.
