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Tuesday 24 September 2013

Danube Trip - Vienna Army Museum


This will be the last blog post for this trip. We fly home tomorrow, and today is a shopping and sightseeing day.

We spent yesterday morning at the splendid Heeresgeschichtemuseum at the Arsenal here in Vienna. I saw a lot, and took a lot of pictures, which I shall have to sort out when I get home. The rest of the day was spent walking around the city - we estimate we walked around 12 miles altogether, which should cancel out a few beers.

I was particularly impressed by the collection of vehicles - not a subject I know much about, but they looked good to me. Some of the following date from the post-war army of occupation. Here's just a selection of photos:

The vehicle in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand had an especially bad day in Sarajevo


























But is it art? We are not sure what it is, but it's interesting

Carl Hilpert's in Schulerstrasse - one of the great toy and model shops. Specialist in model railways

Oh well - all right then...  supper at Joma








4 comments:

  1. What an excellent holiday - I'm envious !

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  2. The Heeresgeschichtemuseum is a great museum, and I greatly enjoyed the short time I had there last year. (although my wife might say it was too long already)

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    1. Thanks very much for the link. Your photos are much better than mine.

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