Comments | elysesewell: comment solicitation (written in haste!)

elysesewell

comment solicitation (written in haste!)

Jun 15, 2009 09:02

Vienna was not really part of the plan, but I ended up here on a layover, awaiting a train to Budapest tomorrow morning. Arrived after midnight and just got back from a long walk around: maybe my blood is just boiling from all the sugar I've eaten (literally had naught else today but 1.33 apples and a bu-uu-nch of candy), maybe it's the random ( Read more... )

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munchkin1616 June 15 2009, 07:07:15 UTC

no stories but yea for candy and for Amadeus, especially for both in one post :)

munchkin1616 June 15 2009, 07:08:04 UTC

PS that money is pretty freaking rad!

creepy face man! Is that Tim Burtons uncle? mssuperhero June 15 2009, 18:53:25 UTC

The man looks sour, like he has syphilis or some other venereal disease that causes pain while peeing.

technical museum at 3 a.m. anyone? ext_194939 June 20 2009, 23:30:15 UTC

I'm playing with the idea of going to the technical museum at 3 a.m. this week, sex and the city style (i.e. just to see if it's really open. kind of hard to believe, given that everything else always closes before i get off work...). It's (supposedly) open non-stop for 100 hours from wednesday night to sunday night. who's in??

jeisenne June 15 2009, 07:10:37 UTC

When we were much younger my family traveled a lot, and we spent a weekend in Vienna. My sister, who was a toddler at the time, was in a picky eating mood and would only eat the canned Libby's Vienna sausages, so in the midst of a temper tantrum, Mom asked room service if they had any Vienna sausages.

What they sent up was not the familiar canned delicacy, but something rather different. I recall my parents saying that it was delicious, but my sister refused to have anything to do with it. I think I was about 6 years old at the time.

As for Tom Hulce --- I think that ship has sailed. He doesn't look anything as joyful and young as he did in Amadeus.

ethan518 August 18 2010, 05:49:29 UTC

Great...

mr_warden June 15 2009, 07:24:03 UTC

When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Also, I fucking love that money.

burberry_outlet June 26 2010, 03:04:05 UTC

That makes sense.

haruhiko June 15 2009, 07:29:46 UTC

How much longer before Federer gets put on that banknote?

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haruhiko June 15 2009, 08:26:40 UTC

YES! How could I forget the stamp. I'd lick it~

haruhiko June 20 2009, 18:32:41 UTC

Federer is Swiss, so he probably won't be on an Austrain banknote any time soon.

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manningkrull June 15 2009, 07:32:56 UTC

If you have more than a day or two in Budapest, I recommend the Communist Statue Garden! You have to take a bus about 30 minutes out of the city. There are usually ads for the thing all over the place, so it shouldn't be to hard to figure out how to get there. After communism fell in Hungary and all the old statues got torn down, some entrepeneur bought them all up and put them in a field out in the suburbs with the the hope that tourists would someday come pay a couple bucks to see them. It's fun and weird.

golden_bastet June 15 2009, 13:34:26 UTC

I don't know if that's Elyse's thing, but I'd definitely go check that out!

moshki June 15 2009, 15:53:57 UTC

I second this, it's an awesome place. I went there last fall, when I was in Budapest.

djsera June 15 2009, 18:40:54 UTC

i agree wholeheartedly - we arrived at the statue garden as the sun was setting (they were technically closed - they let us in because my husband's last name is hungarian. heh), and it was incredible. easily the highlight of that leg of the trip.

i'd warn you about the bus ride, but you're travel-savvy enough to figure it out.

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