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"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and further rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape."-Federico Garcia Lorca

6.23.2010

We Could Do Better. . . .

We could do better. That's all I kept on hearing from Rollie as we circled the city center of Vienna along with Sam looking for a place to have breakfast at. Luckily, Rollie's cheap-ass tendencies allowed us to get a better view of what Vienna has to offer. A simple stroll around these Viennese streets achieve one simple thing. . . . ENVY. This is by far the cleanest city I have EVER visited. What's best of all is that Viennese people take pride in it and they show it in how they treat their city. Other beautiful cities like Paris and Brussels are the complete opposite of that! I remember the piles of shit along Republique in Paris and then people tossing their empty bottles of beer after finishing them in the streets of Brussels. No sir, these people take so much pride in their city, that I'm sure I can easily eat a schnitzel off their street. . . okay may be not that far but it is pretty damn clean.

Did I mention that people here are VERY COURTEOUS. Two mornings in a row we came across this random girl that saw three idiot Americans trying to figure out their heads from their asses as they kept on turning this large map around and around as if it was going to help determine where South and North were located. She was so kind as to help guide us on both occasions to where we needed to get. In fact, one one of those occasions, she went out of her way to escort us to the metro station. Vielen Dank Fremden!

And to answer your question, yes we did finally find a place to have breakfast. In the end, we ended up at this small cafe that I'm pretty sure we passed by and brought it up but Rollie thought that "we could do better". Well, the food was damn good! This was a simple yet PERFECT breakfast to start off our day. This is what breakfast should really consist of here in the states when going out to eat to a restaurant, a lite and healthy breakfast that won't put you in a coma. I mean, honestly people, do we need that humongous whopper of an omelet and that heaping stack of oily hash browns to start off our morning knowing that we are just going to end up passing out? Okay, may be we do, but seriously, this was equally as satisfying, if not, better!

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