We like to eat breakfast on the balcony. It's a small balcony, and crowded with plants, but last year we installed a little folding table to replace the old freestanding unit. Gave us a little more legroom.ABOVE: breakfast. Open face sandwiches, mine with anchovies and olive spread, AND chorizo. Fresh tomatoes from the garden.
ABOVE: Running errands, we came upon this interesting building. Persian influence in the architecture. Note the colorful tiles running up alongside the door.
Some research showed that this building was constructed in 1888 as a factory to manufacture powdered insect repellant. The insecticide was made from plants imported from northern Iran (Persia).
ABOVE: Here's what it looked like around the time it was built.
Then we ran some more errands, ending up at the Naschmarkt. Got some delicious cheese at Kaseland and as far as I'm concerned, this is the place to buy cheese in Vienna. My favorite was a peccorino. The guy said he searched far and wide before finding a source for this cheese; the stuff is aged 3 years, etc.
The building above is Gasthaus zur Eisernen Zeit, a tiny restaurant in the Naschmarkt known for its excellent gulasch---a beef stew made with lots of paprika. B has been wanting to take me there for a while.
ABOVE: Interior of the Gasthaus zur Eisernen Zeit.
ABOVE: Exhibit A---the best gulasch in Vienna!
Later in the evening we drove up into the vineyards to Hajszan, the heurige I mentioned in a previous post.
B took this shot of a guy sitting in one of the wicker gondolas scattered here and there on the property; people bring their kids and dogs here and enjoy the sunset while the kids play nearby and the dogs lay around being dogs.
2 comments:
dogs laying around being dogs? And I wasn't there? Pffftt!
john heinous' hero
You were here in spirit, man.
If memory serves, you have a passport. You should use it sometime.
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