Behind the big door

The mud room, so to speak.

Art, here

Vienna puts on a show.

Big mama

Empress of Austria--and--16 children.

Big daddy

Gotta love them whiskers.

At the Palace

Palace gardens of the Habsburgs.

Show time

Ducats available at TicketMaster.

Simulcast, anyone?

Outdoor theater. And what are they watching?

Opera, of course.

Secession Museum cat fancy

Nice kitty.

Dogs for the Viennese

I'll have that with mustard.

Inside the Ring

On the Karntnerstrass.

look, up there

Resident of the Cat Cafe.

More coffee, mien herr?

And hang a spell.

Java in all its glory

The coffeehouse for the rest of us.

For your Viennese caffeine fix

Where to go for your cup of joe.

Here's to the G-cleft

Mozart rules in Music City.

Angels ascending

What happens when you drink coffee all day long.

Lawyer up

Laws made here.

Old versus new

New versus old.

Shakespeare uber alles

He's here, he's there, he's everywhere.

Move that type

Guttenberg has the honors here.

A bit of a drizzle

A little rain must fall.

Gothic high tide

No need to duck at St. Stephans.

Ready to roll

The hack line at St. Stephens.

And it's good-bye

Off we go, off we go.

One last look

As national symbols go, it's pretty grand.

With a donut?

Can I get a latte grand?

Breakfast nook

No plastic forks at the New York Cafe.

At the New York Cafe

Time for scrambled eggs and sausage.

Piano bar

Tickle them ivories.

Water feature

Splashing around the Szechemyi Baths.

The proverbial hole-in-the-wall

But good eats.

This be the place?

It's a ruin, obviously.

Outdoors, too

Ruin lots for your ruin bar.

Upper scale

Who says it's a ruin?

Looking up in the Erzsebet

Upscale, as ruin bars go.

Snake's place

Rock 'n roll at the ruin bar.

Mixing it up

Mashing up those food metaphors.

The fun begins

Boom times at the ruin bars.

A Budapest speciality

The ruin bar.

Keleti in better days

Crunch time for immigrants begins here.

Think Budapest as one big escape room

We lock you in, you figure out how to escape.

Ground zero

The European refugee crisis will meet here until further notice.