2012-04-26 Bratislava and Vienna

• Gasometers are now expensive apartment blocks, with each converted by a different architect
• Huge Austrian wind farms possibly hundreds of generators
• Bratislava
  • Cathedral had it entrance carved off to make way for the access road to the new bridge in the communist era
  • Mozart lived here too
  • The mayor at one point decided to tax people for the time being shown on the clock tower. people objected, so he had the mechanism disconnected.
  • There was tax relief at one point if your house was damaged in the Napoleonic Wars, so people went out to the fields and gathered cannon balls and embedded them in their house.
  • Many modern sculptures around town (e.g. Cameraman) and the guy pretending to be a statue, next to a statue.
  • Outside of wall of old city, painting a building by abseiling
  • One coffee shop specialised in super rich chocolate drink (like syrup)
  • Haystacks re Easter decoration St stephens.?
• Vienna
  • Soap shop
  • Famous carriage rides
  • St Stephen's Cathedral
  • Proper coffee machines
  • Clock in building near where we stayed 20 years ago
  • Ice cream was really in today
  • Music sampler concert at Palais Liechtenstein
    • golden carriage
    • frescos and sculptures