17-26 deg C, a beautiful morning, turning grey and windy in the afternoon, with a short, heavy shower just as we were heading out to forage for dinner
Walk G: 12km; total: 217km
Walk W: 9km; total: 209km
Today we did the last of the ‘things to see in Linz; according to Greg and Wendy’. There is still a lot more to see if you are into museums, creative spaces, zoos, stadiums, etc, but we do have our limitations. First up we walked over the bridge to the Ars Electronica Centre - a museum full of the future, sometime touchable, sometimes in a wild ride. According to our research this building was used in three James Bond films. Being a Monday it was closed, so we photographed the outside and moved on. There is a quirky building adjacent the Electronica Centre that is a pub/bar called Cafe Pub Stans that caught our attention. The new City Hall, a modern monstrosity of a thing, is also nearby.
Back on our hotel side of the Danube, we wandered along the street and came across a building, Lentos Kunstmuseum, that Greg photographed in 2009 when it had a hospital bed display. Greg was on a ride with a good mate, Graham from the UK. The building looks a bit like a picture frame and is actually full of them, being an art gallery. Also closed on Mondays. Greg took another picture to compare and not much has changed.
Sculptures in the park were next, some of them you have to use a lot of imagination to marry the picture and the words. We stopped in the park for mornos before setting off for Hafenpark and Mural Harbour, aka “Graffiti Central”. Call us old fashioned but we’re not really into graffiti, as soon as we see it we think why don’t they clean it up? Greg liked Linz better in 09 when there was very little graffiti here. A very clean and tidy little place. The graffiti is certainly not confined to designated areas, it has spilt over all throughout the city. The same goes for Hafenpark, lots of colour in the surrounding walls, some of it by talented people. A number of nearby buildings had also been targeted, but this was your common variety stuff, tags and other rubbish. We were expecting to see many murals, instead there were two very long murals with lots of different pictures in them, very modern and weird. Wendy had had enough by then so we caught the trolley bus back to the hotel.
After lunch we had a little rest before Wendy got down to researching and booking a hotel for Prague while Greg went for another general wander. The weather was turning nasty as he returned so we decided to head out to Lidl for dinner and we were half way there when the rain came down in BIG drops, and cold too. Thankfully we were inside when the storm hit. We took a little longer to shop than we really needed, and by the time we checked-out, the sun was partially out.
We had a very early dinner then Greg went for another short walk before retiring for the night.
View from our room
Ursuline Catholic Church
Ars Electronica Centre aka 007 HQ
The quirky pub/cafe
Urfahr parish church of St. Joseph
Reflections on the Danube
Lentos Art Museum
Today’s photo
2009 photo
Cultural monument brick tower in time spiral
High-jet fountain
No explanation
Park beach
No explanation
Nasty!
Hafenpark and Mural Harbor
Main square
New City Hall
Old Cathedral
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