Linz Sightseeing
Trip Start
Jan 06, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 02, 2008
Linz,
Austria
Thursday, October 5, 2006
I only spent three hours there, just enough time to snap photos of some of the prettier parts of the city. The cheapest accomodation I could find asked €40 per night and I said I could do better elsewhere. So I spent the night in Vienna, where I was headed anyway.
Linz citizens seem to be travellers themselves. Every time I got the camera out to snap a photo, regular people on the street would stop what they were doing to stay out of my snapshot. Surely such consideration is no where else so widely practiced.
Although I hope you'll enjoy the photos, I was sort of glad, in afterthought, to not have felt obliged to spend much more time in Linz
01 A Cathedral
. Perhaps there could have been some reason to (if I had met someone cool, or I found a cozy place to read a book, etc.) that was not related to the city, but after about an hour I realised that the city feels a lot like those cities of Belgium.They are beautiful cities over there, no doubt about that. But there is something to so much repetition of architecture that its novelty starts to wear thin. It's not like hearing one joke over and over (to make such an analogy), but to hear the same type of joke over and over. After three hours of blonde jokes, few are too ready to hear another.
By no means am I saying that already by my third day away from home I am bored of this trip (gosh I have like seventy five more days to go). I am a rare person who could hear blonde jokes for three hours at a time. It's just that Linz doesn't have a lot of variety that I could see, between Late 19th c. style and a fairly unexciting bauhaus around the older centre. This entry is becoming a bit of a Linz-basher. Sorry Linz. Now someone from Linz is going to rate my blog one star. I probably would love Linz if I was born there. It's got some great surroundings and who can say that the Danube is anything but great. It's got a great gothic cathedral and a town hall that looks like a bunker.
That last compliment sounds a bit left-handed, doesn't it? I better bring this entry to a close. Enjoy the photos.
