Vienna – August 28, 2015 – Evening

DSC_7116We are on our way to find a place for dinner.  There is a full moon (or almost).  I am trying to take some photos, but the moon doesn’t look as amazing in the photo as it does live!  Oh well, imagine a beautiful full moon with a large traffic circle in Vienna, a column dedicated to Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (prominent naval commanders of the 19th century)  in the center, an amusement park behind.  The ferris wheel has cars that resemble train cars.  Cars, bike, buses and people all scurrying around it.

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We keep to the right to find the street with restaurants.  We find a place very shortly Zina’s, and find ourselves a table on the sidewalk patio.

 

A young man brings us English menus.  He is followed up by a woman he later identifies as his Mom.  We ask the origin of the food.  Moma or Zina says “Oriental”.  I assume that we both look very confused by her answer and she elaborates by saying Lebanese and Syrian.  Interesting, we would never consider Lebanon and Syria as Oriental.  We passed another middle eastern restaurant on our walk today and they also described themselves as Oriental???  We are confused 🙂

DSC_7119We order an assortment of starters as this is the recommendation for first timers.  Clockwise from the top left we have humus, a zucchini dish, mini calzone, prawns (wrapped thin strips of crispy dough DELICIOUS!!), a spinach dish and a pesto sauce.  All accompanied by a selection of breads.  Excellent!!

DSC_7123On our way home we see this.  It says 4,187 cyclists today and 664,194 for 2015.  It has a bicycle pump at the base.  I have no idea how they count the cyslists, but have  noticed that there are lots of them in Vienna, not as many as Amsterdam, but lots.  Amsterdam is actually dangerous place to walk because of the cyclists!  🙂

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