This is kind of an appendix post for Mary Jo’s Class and Museums.
Going from the Lentos to the castle, we found a chicken-woman statue.
Also, something I’ve noticed a lot of around here: there are a ton of grounding wires. Most homes in the states have them, I think, but here they are everywhere, and quite prominent.
This one, however, wasn’t the friendliest looking…
Mary Jo also wanted to show you this, it’s a common architectural thing here. These go through buildings to get to courtyards.
The castle museum sits on top of one of the hills around Linz. It has a pretty nice view.
Well, unless you’re Mary Jo. She didn’t think much of it.
I’m kidding. She liked it too. I got this by yelling “look at me” then taking the pic. She wasn’t ready.
It really is a nice view from up there.
There were some old guard walls around the castle. Apparently people use it for recreation… and by “people” I mean college students, and by “recreation” I mean eating pizza.
There’s a little park behind the castle we checked out too. We found a gazebo with Johannes Kepler… or at least a statue of him.
I really wanted to hook my backpack on his finger and pretend he had stolen it from me. There were a lot of people around though, and we’re self-conscious. So, I present the image we would have taken… minus the backpack… and me.
Actually everything looks all cleaned up in the pictures (except for the college kids’ pizza box!). Is that the real case? Streets, parks, etc. are pretty clean?
Well, kinda. They do make it a big point to clean up the more touristy areas, like the main square. The back streets have a little garbage, but not much. I’d say it would be well on the clean side compared to most American cities.
It hardly has any areas with that “city stink”.
There are some really beautiful shots there.
Who is this kepler guy? what is he famous for? What’s with the chicken woman? Really nice pics.
He was a mathematician and astronomer. Did a lot of work on planetary motion.
Photoshop the backpack in, dude — you should never admit anything photographic! (Or if not Photoshop, GIMP it in!)