On the Road and In Your Backyard

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

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For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

 

I found this unpublished set, enjoy folks. Since I worked on the site so much Sunday and have much more to do Monday, I’m pushing back a special super-set from realbtl’s trip to Ireland. It will be next week, beginning next Monday.

It will be grand.

Today, pictures from valued commenter otmar.

As some of the jackals asked for more pictures from Austria, here are some I took during the last few days.

There are three subway lines that cross the Danube river: this is the view from line U2 upstream towards the city. The high-rise buildings on the right are the Donaucity that include the UN buildings. Back when I was a kid, those were dominant there, these days they are almost the smallest buildings in that area.

Just a few miles downstream there is a hydro-electric plant, thus the river is very quiet here.

I recently sent a picture of the Pestsäule in Mödling. This here is the one that was built right in the center of Vienna.

Different angle of the Pestsäule on the Graben. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graben,_Vienna

Just around the corner there is the cathedral of Vienna: St Steven’s church.

This is the courtyard of an old palais on Herrengasse. They found some Roman foundations during renovations a few years back.

These days, this particular building is owned by the federal government and houses offices of a ministry.

 

Thank you so much otmar, do send us more when you can.

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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