Closer to the edge

Nature of Vienna

Vienna Technical University. Owl facade.

 Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui). Public park.

Dragonfly trapped in vacant commercial property.

Larger scale Austrian dragonfly trap. Historic area, Vienna.

Green and purple.

Classical dressage of the Spanische Hofreitschule (Spanish Court Riding-School of Vienna) and it's Lipizzan horses. No photo policy in the main hall. Covert, jaunty angled souvineer shot snapped from the hip.

Boats of Donegal

Orange pop

Orange juice with 'orange sacs'. Good stuff. 238ml can tho ???

Dubai fog

Commute to work. Emirates Airline towers from Safa Park area side street.

South Indian breakfast takeaway

South Indian treats for breakfast this morning.

Kona Africa Bike

Kona Africa Bike. Mine is in Bruxelles. This one was on Wasl Road.

Beschilderung von Wien

Lots of great neon signs with cool typefaces in Vienna.

Neon on block lettering sign.

 

Check out the sign for the Nacht Straßenbahn.  The 'R' and tram icon is used for the vintage Ring Tram which runs around the historic city center on lines 1 and 2.

Sad face on some graffiti or simply a paint spill?

Anschlag!

Vintage.

What a sign! For a laundramat at that!!

Bikes of Vienna

 Short shorts and backpack. Which country is this?

Irrsinnig trendy bike themed cafe.

 Vienna is fully bike compliant.

A 'faxi'. Pedal powered... with a small motor at the rear.

Orange GT...

Ex cafe? Bike shop?

Colour coordinated old skool USA look.

Green Raleigh.

Super minimal single speed rider at the bike rental stand?

 Over designed city bike in the Peak Performance store.

 Summer. Euro randonneuse (probably on route to a youth hostel.)

Eastern euro looking rental bike. 

Traffic lights on the cycle paths!?

Check out 'New York' hauling it down Mariahilfer Strasse.

 XXL stencil on cafe wall.

 Double top tube config a la Torker cira 1980s.

What is the point?

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

 

The most ornate natural history museum. Palace de Versailles meets Victoria & Albert.

The Austrian Steve Zizzou.

Had his own lens and underwater photographic hardware...

Darwin expositions seem to be a theme across euro museums this summer.