HALLO! Welcome to my Vienna blog, my little mongrels!
So for some context, I'm actually currently doing an Internship in Budapest, and so I've just said "eh fuck it" to Hungary and took a bus to Austria, Vienna instead!
Seriously though, this is a BEAUTIFUL city, truly so much culture to experience here, I'm really hoping I get to come back another day to see all the art and music museums... As for now, I can only share a few photos I took during my sightseeing escapade and of course - the natural history museum! Most of the pictures will be from there actually haha
You know, I even found out that Vienna has the OLDEST (still working) Zoo in the WHOLE WORLD?! Like IMAGINE that, when I found this out - I FUCKING KNEW I have to come back here one day.
oh also - I met my Chinese idol, Ne zha ...I totally played it cool
seriously, though, have any of you seen this movie? I feel like most people don't even know that it's the highest grossing animated film now - surpassing inside out
And honestly? The story might not be the most world shattering thing ever, but the animation, the gags, the effort? It really deserves it. I've never seen such a beautifully animated movie before, there's this split second shot, of an old man's hand, and it's the most detailed - gorgeous hand I've ever seen.. But that's not even my favorite part - the STAKES of this movie are HIGH, the sequel was SO tense to watch - I genuinely couldn't peel my eyes away. If you guys are cinephiles like me, you should totally give it a watch
ANYWAY, I'm done yapping about the *irrelevant* stuff, DINOSAURS! or well PREHISTORIC ANIMALS! LOOK AT THIS DAMN TERROR BIRD RECONSTRUCTION!!!
Genuinely such a beautiful sculpture, and my birder roommate even pointed out that they used real turkey feathers for this,,hehe turkey terror bird Also, on a side note - I want to express how i felt throughout this little excursion, as i was having severe back and shoulder cramps/pains, after walking around a museum for aprox. 5 hours my face looked somewhere like this.
(I really think these photos express my emotions perfectly)
Oh yeah! These taxidermy sets! Aren't they beautiful?? The frilled lizard one even has a little badge from the European Taxidermy championship! Though I wonder about the frogs..do the blue dudes ever bully the boring piss colored frog in the middle? Is frog racism real? Some more gorgeous fossils and replicas of fossils! (I haven't seen this many prehistoric fossils even in the natural history museum of London I believe, so I'm like really excited about these...such gorgeous models)
Though to be fair I was like 14 when I visited London's museum, I should go see it again sometime.. All I remember is their Baryonyx (as it's one of my favorite dinosaurs)
OH YEAH, I saw this GORGEOUS T-rex Skull and I HAD to take pictures with it LOL
I don't quite like showing my face on social media, so I drew over myself with my Sona Cheeto - Don't judge how bad the art is, I did it on my laptops' trackpad in bed, after 9 hours of work and 4 hours of sleep and haven't drawn for like half a year...
Hmmm, I guess that's it! I definitely have MANY more pictures, but it's just me obsessively photographing every single fish, lizard, and fossil I saw - and I don't want to cluster up this blog TOO much So instead I'll show this book I bought from the gift shop! Severely overpriced, and outdated but It's mine and I love it. I'm actually quite a sucker for old "vintage" paleoart, so this book is a real treat to me!
Little authors note: If you got this far, thank you for reading my blog! I had to re-make this blog like three times, as I am severely sleep-deprived, and not used to working on a laptop, So I have accidentally refreshed the page while writing the code/text for this blog and lost all my progress, nearly lost my mind! But I was determined to post it tonight! There is one thing I would love to share from this trip, and it was this plaque that had some quite uplifting text, really helped me feel more motivated, as someone who loves discovering and learning more about this world.
"This is a rare chance to continue learning to see, even if - especially is - you think that this process had been finished long ago and that you 'have seen it all' ... Never give up the expectation of seeing beauty and miracles for the first time."
I love Vienna, I was to Salzburg before but I defo plan to go there to, and this blog convinced me even more! The stuff there seems exhiliartingly good, happy you had so much fun wandering around, have fun with the book too! (And though luck with your internship as well.)
ahhh im so glad to hear it inspired you even more to visit it!! maybe take me in the trunk of the car or something i need to come back ASAP and see that zoo aughhhh but yeah such a gorgeous city, just abit expensive and im a major brokie though i mostly wanna explore austrias mountains ...or switzerlands - im obsessed with hiking haha
yeah when I get to maybeee but I don‘t have money as well so Honestly every family vacation for me ever, we go hiking in Austria, Switzerland is nice too but even more expensive even if you stay at hostels
this is why camping is my favorite! some good tents and sleeping bags and ur set xD i wish my family liked hiking though, im the only crazy one in my family that just wants to climb every mountain ever
No I love camping! As a kid, I was kind if dragged to the mountains but now I‘m basically the one dragging the rest along xD That‘s sad tho, I hope you can go hiking now (maybe not alone but yeah)
Wow, what a cool trip! I love all the photos! The fossils and taxidermy are so interesting, I really love the blue frogs ;w; That's really neat about them having the oldest zoo, I had no idea :0 That text at the end is really sweet too, it seems like you had a great time! :D Thank you for sharing!!
ty very much! but yeah vienna has so much cool shit that i had no idea about, i mean they have one of the most important cultural people from vienna, like mozart and shit - im a lil nerd so i really love stuff like that
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Also, on a side note - I want to express how i felt throughout this little excursion, as i was having severe back and shoulder cramps/pains, after walking around a museum for aprox. 5 hours my face looked somewhere like this.
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I love Vienna, I was to Salzburg before but I defo plan to go there to, and this blog convinced me even more! The stuff there seems exhiliartingly good, happy you had so much fun wandering around, have fun with the book too! (And though luck with your internship as well.)
ahhh im so glad to hear it inspired you even more to visit it!!
maybe take me in the trunk of the car or something i need to come back ASAP and see that zoo aughhhh
but yeah such a gorgeous city, just abit expensive and im a major brokie
though i mostly wanna explore austrias mountains ...or switzerlands - im obsessed with hiking haha
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yeah when I get to maybeee but I don‘t have money as well so
Honestly every family vacation for me ever, we go hiking in Austria, Switzerland is nice too but even more expensive even if you stay at hostels
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this is why camping is my favorite! some good tents and sleeping bags and ur set xD
i wish my family liked hiking though, im the only crazy one in my family that just wants to climb every mountain ever
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No I love camping! As a kid, I was kind if dragged to the mountains but now I‘m basically the one dragging the rest along xD That‘s sad tho, I hope you can go hiking now (maybe not alone but yeah)
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Wow, what a cool trip! I love all the photos! The fossils and taxidermy are so interesting, I really love the blue frogs ;w; That's really neat about them having the oldest zoo, I had no idea :0
That text at the end is really sweet too, it seems like you had a great time! :D Thank you for sharing!!
ty very much! but yeah vienna has so much cool shit that i had no idea about, i mean they have one of the most important cultural people from vienna, like mozart and shit - im a lil nerd so i really love stuff like that
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