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The Rinse Cycle: Part 3

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 This morning we were due to visit the synagogue but tour was cancelled due to the "situation". So we had a kleiner Brauner instead. Sunbaking Vienna style We wandered off to the Leopold Museum to take in a healthy dose of Egon Schiele and Klimt. In the arvo we went looking for a portable refrigerator in order to transport our cheese-big success! Tonight's opera was Siegfried-sitting in front of me was a Watusi warrior with resless head syndrome-not at all irritating. Robyn's subtitle machine broke down in the first act so she couldn't tell a Valkyrie from a dragon; any way it was all restored in time for act 2. The whole performance went for over 4 hours(plus intervals) but was quite gripping and entertaining(could have used a few more jokes).
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Horsey stuff and I scream

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 We have tix to see the practice session of the fabled white horses of Vienna(if they are so good why don't we ever see them in the Melbourne Cup?) For an hour we sit and watch them doing all sort of funny walks and finally leap through a fiery hoop(I wish). Then we visit my grandmother and make sure she is all spic and span. We try to visit previous contacts inside the apartment block but are refused entry. Lunch is at a nearby Beisl(schnitzel score 6/10). Then for dessert it is off to Tichy Eissalon(ice cream score 9/10-they lose a point fornot existing in Melbourne) 
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More rocks than you ever wanted to see

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 Today we visit the impressive Natural History Museum (as distinct from the unnatural history museum). The building is impressive with room after room of rocks and gemstones(like Woodsies Gem Shop in Mildura on steroids). Apart from rocks there are rooms full of stuffed animals, who all look like they are happy to be there. Of course there is a coffee shop inside where we can enjoy our kleiner brauner with apricot dumplings in decadent splendour. Frank as a homo heidelbergensis We then visit me Mum's former residence where she lived until all those nice Austrians tried to murder her. We walk down to the aptly named Feuerwehr Wagner inn where we partake of beer and schnitzel-this can be a very pleasant city when they aren't out to kill you! We get caught in a refreshing thunderstorm en root to the D tram and arrive home sodden but happy.
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The Rinse Cycle: Part the 2

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  Still wondering what to do with commercial quantities of cheese We make our way down to the opera house for a tour of the insides of said building. I ask the guide why they can't provide us with English printed programmes? He can give no rational explanation. We stop for refreshments at Freud's favourite coffee house and then off to lunch of my favourite Viennese delicacy: Beuschel -a nutritious stew of chopped heart, lung and any other bits of random stuff lying around the kitchen. At 5pm we attend our next opera, Die Walkure, a mere 4 hours in length.  The basketballers blocking my view before are not to be seen but directly in front of me sits a former All Black lock forward. I know there has been some activity on the stage because my beloved told me it was quite the spectacle. I take out my anger on a programme seller for advertising programmes in English when they are all in foreign! What Robyn could see What I could see! I think I am developng pressure ares on my but...
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