Atmosphere ..... ?

Si asked what nthe atmosphere is like in Vienna. ? Well.... it does seem a little subdued. Of course there are a lot of Croatians about singing all the time but I have not seen that from supporters of any other teams.

At the match yesterday... the Austria vs Croatia game, in the stadium the atmosphere was fantastic. Clapping and chanting in unison, a whole lot of noise being generated and no waning in that for the whole match.

I went down to the museum quarter today and to be honest apart from a few posters and giant football boots you would not know that there was a tournament on !!
I managed to get to the Kunts historisches museum today. What an overwhelming place. The inside of the building takes your breath away. You certainly know that the Austrians once had a great big empire when you see that kind of thing. Did not spend long there ( had to get to work !! I am working honest :)) but saw some paintings by Rembrandt and Rubens. Rubins certainly painted them big... I mean really big !

The artist that made me smile though, was a chap called Arcimboldo. He painted still life. Mainly of vegetables and fruit in bowls and stuff like that. What's so good about it ???.... why did it make me smile.. ??? Well as nice as still life is it is pretty boring.... well in my books anyway. What Arcimboldo did was paint it in a way that if you turned your head upside down (or the painting of course !!)you would see a kind of portrait of an unusual looking person. Very clever ! Below is an example try it.
Cool Huh. This guy was painting these in the 1500's !!

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