Nerd Rage

This is what the sub­way in Vienna looks like around 5:30 (am) on a Sun­day. When Joe and I had walked around town the after­noon before, every­thing was ter­ri­bly crowded and you couldn’t really enjoy (or pho­to­graph) a lot of the things that make Vienna great. Joe had arrived by night train in Vienna the morn­ing before and told fab­u­lous sto­ries about how empty the streets were this early in the day. So this here is one of the very rare occa­sions where I got up really early in the morn­ing to see sights and take pic­tures mostly undis­turbed. And I really did not run across many peo­ple until I started on my way back into the hotel to grab break­fast with the rest of the guys.

This is the “Prater­stern” sta­tion, about 5 min­utes from the hotel in which we stayed.

The stick­ers above nearly every seat in a Vien­nese sub­way train tell you to sur­ren­der your seat to preg­nant women, women with kids, blind peo­ple, and the elderly. There were a cou­ple of other rid­ers on the train, but clearly not a lot. Dur­ing the day the sub­ways are usu­ally very crowded and one is lucky to get a seat at all…

Look­ing down quite a long esca­la­tor in the “Stephans­dom” sta­tion. The wall at the top of the pic­ture was part of the secu­rity offices and had dark­ened glass win­dows, which made me a bit ner­vous tak­ing pic­tures right in front of it, but I guess no one saw me, or cared…

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