Famous Austrians

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a good - although unexpected - start.

I'm wondering why nobody has mentioned Mozart, yet. Maybe the weather has been so good these few days that you aren't reading the blog. Maybe some of you don't read it - GASP - daily! Maybe some don't read this blog on the weekend - at all! I'm in shock!

We are on our way back to Bochum. We are sitting at the Vienna International Airport and waiting. We visited today the Sigmund Freud Museum. Now there's a famous Austrian! The museum is located in the apartment Freud lived and had his office for almost 50 years. Then he had to emigrate to London in 1938. He died a year later. When the nazis were burning his books, he just remarked "haven't we come a long way from the Middle Ages. I would have been burned then. Now they seem to be satisfied just burning my writings." If you're interested in the near history or psychology, the museum is well worth visiting.

If you're interested in more ancient history and evolution, pay a visit to the Museum of Natural History. It is amazing! I had visited it in 1990 already, but didn't have a clue how cool it really is. They even have some live animals there. They are building a vivarium with fish and tortoises and lizards and ants. We left quite quickly when Virpi noticed that the larger than normal ants were walking on the same side of the glass as we were standing! Who knows what else had escaped through the same hole!