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Another thing that visitors traditionally do is to drink “new wine” at a “heurigen”,
an inn that is licensed to sell the new wine. There are several places around
Vienna that have heurigen, but one of them Grinzing, is on a tram route. Back
then we went to the Schottentor and got a 38 tram, at the lower level of the
Schottentor interchange station, all the way to Grinzing.
Grinzing is consciously old-worldly like Niagara on the Lake but it's charming
anyway. We walked up the hill looking at the baroquish buildings. It was very
very hot and we got very very hot, so we slipped into the Beethoven Heuringen
and (horrors) Dewi had a BEER while Eufron had the obligatory spritzer. The beer
was ok but the wine was too sweet.
When we’d cooled down, it was back again to Schottentor, onto the 44 tram, and
then we decided to go to the end of the line and back. Unfortunately the tram
didn’t go quite to the end of the route: the driver was not returning as it was
the last run for that tram. Instead, he tried to be helpful and took us to the
nearest 43 tram stop, which he thought would take us to our hotel.
After he and his tram were out of sight, we sneakily took a 43 the other way and
picked up a 44 at the real end of its line.
Then back to the
hotel, exhausted. Too tired to eat supper, we fell into bed.
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Grinzing tram terminus
Photo DSCF1286 on 13 Jun 2002
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Tram on 38 route at Grinzing tram terminus. The first Baroque tram-station that I've seen.
Photo DSCF1294 on 13 Jun 2002
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Eufron in front of Heurigen, Himmelstrasse, Grinzing
Photo DSCF1287 on 13 Jun 2002
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Another Heurigen at Grinzing
Photo DSCF1289 on 13 Jun 2002
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Eufron quaffing spritzer, Beethoven heurigen, Grinzing
Photo DSCF1292 on 13 Jun 2002
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Dewi drinking (gasp!) beer at heurigen, Grinzing
Photo DSCF1293 on 13 Jun 2002
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trams on routes 10 and 44 at terminus, north of Alserstrasse
Photo DSCF1295 on 13 Jun 2002
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