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I have one last set of pictures from Vienna that I’ll probably post a little later. (My health hasn’t been good at all, so didn’t bother.)

Moreover, I’ve been playing with Pugs lately. nothingmuch (whom I had met at OSDC Israel) gave me a commiter bit yesterday. Haven’t done anything much yet, except for writing a couple of tests. For now (sometime maybe) I’m just going to write Perl6 examples so I get a feel of the language and also figure out what’s broken and stuff (class attribute inheritance, Perl5 module imports—sort of, etc.). Will probably look into the guts of the module import bit later.

Anyway, what interested me to Pugs is that the guts are all written in Haskell—something I had an interest in and used a tad at one point. And, of course, the people are all really nice.

After having some food at Donau Tower, I took the U1 to Karlsplatz, and then the U4 to Schönbrunn, home to The Schönbrunn Palace, and various other things of interest: a zoo, a public maze, The Gloriette, etc.

I didn’t go inside the palace (12€, I think). Instead, I decided to walk up to the Gloriette. Yes, there’s a café there too; it was closed, though (I think it’s open in summers). This was probably the awesomest (and most romantic) place I’ve visited here. And the view from here is awesome too:

I was feeling hungry at this time, so I looked if there’s any of the recommended restaurants somewhere close. I found Pizzeria Mafiosi off a lane on Mariahilferstraße (and also very close to Westbahnof). Anyway, it was a really long walk, and I was dead tired. I had a mug of beer and a huge pizza. All in 5.7€. Made me realize what suckers the Pizza Hut (and the likes) folks back here are. Anyway, the place is nice, but wasn’t necessarily worth the walk.

I headed back to the hostel, took some rest, and then decided to visit St. Marx Friedhof (St. Marx cemetery). Mozart was buried here. (Beyond St. Marx Friedhof is Zentralfriedhof where Beethooven and other famous artists are buried.) So I took the U3 to Volkstheater, then the U1 to Karlsplatz, and finally tram 71 from Schwarzenbergplatz to St. Marx Friedhof. It was quite late by this time—around 18:00 or so, and so couldn&rsqauo;t enter the cemetery (closes at 17:00).

Now there was a Chris Rea concert at 20:00 at Guglgaße (it’s at another end). I was *way* too tired, so ditched. Wish I had attended.

All pictures from Schönbrunn »

This ends the Vienna series. Hope you’ve enjoyed them. All pictures from Vienna »

I’m hoping to go backpacking around Europe (Amsterdam, Bavaria, Prague, Kraków, Bratislava, Budapest — something like that, I guess) later this year. Let’s see.