Wagner:Part the First

 Following b'fast we catch our favourite D tram into town and following some confusion on my part regarding the day's activities, we do our VR walking tour of Vienna. How this works is that we follow our guide to various sites and then strap on our goggles


and through the miracle of science we are transported back into various historical tableaus(battles, plagues, religious processions etc)-it actually was rather cool!

Question: Is it possible to walk past a sausage stand


without stopping and partaking of Austria's finest? So far the answer is a resounding NO!

Then coffee(kleiner Brauner)


at our favourite coffee house and a spot of shopping including finding a pot of Vegemite.

We return to our digs for rest and preparation

Note 8 euro jacket

for part 1 of the Rinse Cycle; Rhinegold

Unfortunately despite paying top dollar for our seats our view is impeded by a group booking in front of us of a US basketball team, from the land of giants😡. Mustn't grumble though cos the opera was terrific; Wagner was Rogers & Hammerstein rolled together of his day.




 

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