A Walk in Brunn

Okay guys, I finally took a walk around my neighborhood and took some pictures of what I saw. At first there was nothing interesting to photograph, but I decided to deviate from the path (and town really) and head down some dirts roads. The first few pics are of my neighborhood and the last few are what I found outisde of the city.

Here's a typical street in my town - Brunn.

This is the entrance to the train station in Brunn. Pretty fancy, eh?

Spitalkirche.

The banhof (train bridge). I go through this everyday on the way to the train station. You can't really see too well, but there's some great grafiti on the walls.

My platform coming in from Perchtoldsdorf. The station is called Brunn am Gebirge.

Going down the back stairway from the train station. Here's where the real adventure begins.

I decided to go left instead of right on my way back home and the rest is what I found!

A vineyard! In the middle of the town! But wait, it gets better!

I saw this little dirt road and decided to be adventurous even though it was eight at night.

 I'm very glad I did.

There was a cemetary in the middle of nowhere. I've never seen a European graveyard - all of the graves are side-by-side. I thought it was a "little" cemetary, but it ended up being about a half mile long!

That's Spitalkirche in the background.

There were lots of these sepulchres in the graveyard. I peeked inside one and there was a - well, sarcophagus I guess you could say - and about two rows of pews in each one. Lots and lots of candles too! Okay now, this is the best part. The church bells started ringing and on cue, the wind started blowing. I think this is when I started to get creeped out.

The bigger graves all had these huge handles on them - very Christmas Carolish. Oh, I almost forgot! After the church bells rang, all of the graves started lighting up with these electric (or something) lanterns. Ahhhhhahahaha! It was so creepy!

So by this time, I was really lost and I wasn't sure if I would make it home by dark so I exited the graveyard and - NO JOKE - I saw my apartment complex right in front of me across a huge field and through a small tree line! I didn't see anyway to get to it other than through the field, so I walked through it hoping there was some way to get there through the trees. When I finally got to the trees, there was a little wooded path to the neighboring apartment building and when I was walking through, this is what greeted me:

I call him Mr. Creeper-cat-that-scared-the-bejeebers-out-of-me-and-made-a-perfect-ending-to-a-spooky-walk. Oh, and his last name is Harold.

So there you have it, guys! I still can't believe everything that happened! And this was only about a 55 minute walk. I really didn't go very far. None of this stuff is fabricated and every picture is in sucession from start to finish of the walk. I think I'll go on more walks :)

I hope these sights help you imagine a little bit about what it's like here. I know this is only a small part, but I'll get some more up soon. I'm going into the heart of Vienna with some ladies from the office on Thursday and they're giving me the grand tour! I'm so excited! Thanks for tuning in!