“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see. You hang around cafés.”

- Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises

I don’t know this girl, but I happened to be walking past as her friend was taking her picture with Mozart, and I just couldn’t resist taking one as well.  Plus, there’s that dude in the red t-shirt checking out the whole affair, which is the cherry on top of this bizarre sundae.

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

- Franz Kafka

Back in the summer of ‘05, I was oversees working on the film, Munich.  Ironically, I got to visit several countries in Europe that year, but of course, not Germany.  The closest I got was the daytrip I took to Vienna.  I took the early morning train from Budapest and spent the day walking around, taking in the sights and sounds of the Austrian capital.  Having studied German for two years in college, I was determined to use as little English as possible on the trip, which meant that it turned out to be a pretty quiet day.

I couldn’t help but snap a pic of this “small” cafe; an idyllic looking European cityscape if there ever was one.  I also couldn’t help but patronize the cafe and order a refreshing Austrian lager (by pointing at the menu).

I took this shot from the tower of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna back in the summer of ‘05.  It’s quite a trek up to the top of the tower, but the view from above is absolutely stunning, especially of the ornate rooftop below.