Old Vienna: Coffee at Demel and Central
Amidst the boxes I'm happy I finally found my box of photo CDs. I'm delighted the DVD reader reads them well and the photographs are still there after almost a decade. I shall have to back them up. With digital cameras, I take more pictures but print less and then end up losing some when my harddisk crashes. Technology. Looking through my Vienna photos, I am reminded of the coffee culture there. There are cafes or "Kaffeehaus" on almost every road. Each with their own atmosphere and their own unique style. Stories abound as to how it all started. Some say when the Turks were defeated in 1683 they left bags of coffee, hence started the coffee culture in Vienna. Fascinating. Now coffee is known worldwide. I have two favorites in Vienna. Cafe Demel and Cafe Central . Demel is wonderfully beautiful and dates from 1786. The Hofburg towers above the small road from Demel at Karntnerstra...