So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu...

... actually that is not strictly true. I am not saying goodbye at all. You will be able to stay up to date with all the well loved characters of Ohhh Wienna (Boyo, Mr Boring, The Parents etc) on my new blog: http://alotoftempestinapotoftea.blogspot.com/

Who knows, maybe one day I will get spotted and made rich without having to ever do anything other than ramble on about the things in my head!

It's all in the detail...

WARNING: IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE ABOUT A MILLION PHOTOS, DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER.

During a slide show of my photographs for the Parents, it was brought to my attention that I have taken barely any that show buildings in their entirety. I thought I just snapped randomly but it turns out I have a "Distinctive Style" (not my own words). So, here are some photos which show Vienna, up close and personal:

 a gate at the Belvedere

 Demel Easter eggs

 tomb in the Zentralfriedhof

 one of many Heurigen in Grinzing

the Hofburg fence 

 chandelier in the Oper auditorium

 the conductor's podium

 a lamppost at the Parlament

 an advertisement post

 Christkindlmarkt baubles

 the French Embassy gate. in winter

 Russian church in the Zentralfriedhof

 Jugendstil on the Linke Wienzeile

 Otto Wagner's sunflower pavillion

 the one and only Secession building

 shopping on the Graben

 the little Brieftaube

 the Palmenhaus door

 a huge pot outside the Secession

 the lovely roof of Steffl

 one of many wreaths

Jugendstil at its most pointless- the Ankeruhr 

 a little light music outside the Oper

 a lovely dragon on the Palais Ferstel

 the Altes Rathaus balcony

 a gauge at the Gasometer

 the Greek church in the old part of town

 Franz Josef's pavillion at Hietzing

 the Holocaust Memorial in Judenplatz

one of many beautiful door handles 

 the garden of the KunstHaus

 beautiful metalwork on the Kunstforum

 Julius Meinl

 have you heard? apparently bird is the word

 noch ein beautiful door

 angels on the steps of the Parlament

 a little boy who loves the PSK like I do

 inside the Postsparkasse

Hundertwasser's incinerator 

 Kirche am Steinhof

 one of the Tuchlauben girls

 arches galore in Vienna

 gates like lace around the Belvedere

 beauty even in death at the Zentralfriedhof

 Jugendstil on a little bridge between the Stadtpark and the Donaukanal

 om nom nom... Naschmarkt

 Peterskirche, just off the Graben

 the tailor of Gloucester? oh no, I mean Vienna

 Stadtpark vases

 Hundertwasser Haus

fascism monument 

Schoenbrunn gardens

And, my dears, in the words of Miss Clavelle- "that's all there is, there isn't any more. As I am now back on Her Majesty's island, I don't think  I will have much more interesting stuff to say. Maybe I will post about my trip to Japan but after that this little blog will be coming to an end I think.