hot on the heels of barcelona and prague from about five to ten years ago, helsinki and reykjavik seem to have dominated european city breaks more recently. another city has also joined this esteemed group, vienna.

three unique points:

- the only city in the world to have a funeral museum
- the only capital city in the world to have vineyards and wine production within the city limit
- more museums per capita than any other city in the world

falco ("rock me amadeus", "vienna calling", both good tracks) died 5 years ago in a car crash and is buried in the second largest cemetery in europe, the central cemetery, together with brahms, schubert, strauss x4 and beethoven. mozarts cenotaph is also there.

dont forget the vienna state opera house, the vienna mozart orchestra and the wiener schnitzel (used to be veal, now made with pork).

so there you have it. go there. vienna.

next city to join these ranks... i reckon dubrovnik.

medical news today:

- egyptian 2 yearold conjoined twins mohamed and ahmed separated after 34 hours of surgery at childrens medical center dallas (right next door to parkland memorial hospital, where jfk was taken after he got shot. ive had a look around trauma er there, pretty impressive!)
- first report of successful ovary transplantation in monkeys

food of the day:

four cheese pizza. tasted surprisingly good.

posted by Chas at 19:37
go ahead, roll the donut!