- Male, 55-60, solo travel
- 5th consecutive summer in western Europe (Schengen)
- Focus on cultural history with themes in art, architecture, science
Before arrival:
- Changed mobile-plan to include 50 GB per month roaming in Germany and Austria, plus free domestic calls within those countries
- Vienna city: Wiener Linien 31-day ticket, direct on WienMobil mobile app
- Regional rail from Vienna: routes and tickets on "VOR A nach B" mobile app; no need to book far in advance
- All long-distance train journeys within Austria booked on ÖBB and Westbahn websites; also, "ÖBB Tickets" and "Westbahn" apps, respectively.
- Hotel in Graz reserved with HRS dot de, which I've used since 2006 and with whom I have no business or financial connections.
Phases 1 to 3 and 6 to 8, in GERMANY sub-forum
Phase 4: Vienna 🇦🇹
- Leaving Berlin on flight BER-VIE: crossing my fingers ⛽️
- Multiple-week stay for 5th consecutive summer
- Possible/planned coverage:
- Second Ottoman Siege of Vienna 1683, traces & memorials
- Beethoven, more traces
- Bloch-Bauer, traces
- Klimt:
- 3rd studio, in Hietzing
- “Medicine” (1900 destroyed), new 2024 at AKH
- Public art by Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz
- Napoleon French army at Aspern & Wagram in 1809
- Gugumuck family-farm reviving late-19th century Viennese food tradition 🐌
- New visits
- Josephinum
- Narrenturm
- Sigmund Freud Museum
- Return visits, possible
- Jüdisches Museum Wien 🐇
- Leopold Museum
- Oberes Belvedere
- Wien Museum (Karlsplatz)
- Short trip(s) to Linz, long-distance trains with ÖBB/Westbahn
- Johannes Kepler, traces & memorials
- Ars Electronica
- Lentos
- Pöstlingberg
- Kunstsammlung des Landes OÖ
Francisco Carolinum
Day trip to Baden bei Wien, regional train
- Beethoven, traces
Day trip to Mödling, regional train
- Beethoven, traces
Possible day trip to Tulln, S-Bahn S40 train
- Egon Schiele Museum
Phase 5: Graz 🇦🇹
- Long-distance train from Vienna to Graz
- Multiple-night stay
- Possible/planned coverage:
- Johannes Kepler, traces
- Inner City + Eggenberg Palace: UNESCO World Heritage ("931")
- Ludwig Boltzmann, EPS site
- J.B.Fischer von Erlach, traces
- Joanneum: country’s oldest museum
- Flight to Germany's Rhein-Ruhr region
All subject to change, spontaneity, and whimsy; dates and durations for each phase not specified to protect the guilty, namely me.