Coffee, Stephansdom and Vienna

Coffee is good -- and never ask for coffee-to-go in Vienna. They'll shake their heads sadly at you. Coffee is meant to be sipped slowly. In a cafe. With friends.

For the record, there are 400 steps in the tower of Stephansdom and I got to the top slowly. The steps themselves aren't so bad. It's the narrow spiral and meeting people. The view is worth it, of course.

Now Doug and I are in the Schoenberg Museum. I'm listening to the atonal music while Doug is looking at all the exhibits of Schoenberg's handwritten music. One has to have an eclectic musician in your life in order to gain an appreciation for twentieth century 12-tone music. Over the years it has grown on me. They should do elevator music from these compositions.