Everyday Beauty

Hello there! In real time I have just successfully presented my talk at the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, and am now relaxing after an intense and exciting week of rock discussion and free alcohol consumption, all while basking in the recently sprung Spring weather. However, in blog time we are still mired somewhere in mid March, a bleak and chilly time...

Looking at the bunch of photos I have for you this week, no obvious story occurs to me. The only unifying thing about them is that they were all taken within an area that you could safely call central Vienna, inside the second ringroad called the 'Guertel' or belt, which splits off districts 1-9 from the double digit districts. It is quite a marked architectural and socio-economic boundary in many ways, Vienna definitely suffers a bit from the stratification that occurs in many European cities, something that (at least in the past) was avoided in London by virtue of the patchwork of council housing veining the whole of the city. Anyway, the Innenstadt is certainly the Vienna of the postcards.

These photos lend themselves best to description by caption, so by all means, head on over to picasa! And so new camera doesn't get sad, I will repeat the usual advice that by clicking on the magnifying glass you can see them at high resolution.

Enjoy exploring the things that form the backdrop to my daily wanderings!

Der Tom