Vienna, Day 4 (Friday, October 10): Schloss Schönbrunn, Sigmund Freud Museum, and Der Rumänische Nationale Kammerchor Madrigal zum Stephansdom

Kenny, Rudy, and I use the wi-fi in the hotel lobby as the group gathers for our morning outing.

Our group takes the subway to the Schönbrunn stop. 

 Herr D gives instructions before we enter Schloss Schönbrunn, the Summer Palace of the Habsburgs.  Our large group of 52 students separate into two groups of 26 students each for the tour.

We talk through the entrance gate.


We take a grand tour of the Summer Palace.

Conner, me, Tawni, and Justine in front of the Summer Palace while we wait for our tour guide.

Dylan got my back.

Dylan uses my cell phone for this selfie of Chloe and him.

I walk backwards while facing the students and talking with our tour guide.

Alexa picks up a headset for the tour.

Mac adjusts the volume on his headset.

Scaffolds for trimming the trees.

This picture looks like an architect's depiction of part of a garden maze.

A memorial.

The students gather around the tour guide.  

Tour guide says, "Even the Habsburgs lacked money to build all that they had originally wanted to build here."

Dr. Lerner insists, "The Habsburgs especially lacked money."

We walk through many rooms in the Summer Palace.  I, however, have no pictures to show you because the authorities at the Summer Palace forbid photography inside the rooms.

A subway poster in Vienna for a British rock band and an American singer.

In the afternoon, Herr D.'s literature students, who have already read Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, tour the Freud Museum while the other students tour the Mozart Museum with Dr. Lerner.

Freud worked and lived here from 1891 to 1938.  In 1938 he emigrated from Vienna to London, and he took all of his belongings with him.  The Freud Museum in Vienna has only a few of his possessions, which his daughter, Anna Freud, donated to the museum. 

The address for Freud's home and office in Vienna.

The entrance to the Freud Museum.

Freud did not care for America.  American psychology, however, embraces Freud.

The students listen to our tour guide.

An ashtray for Freud's cigars.  Our tour guide claims he smoked 25 cigars per day.  Besides cigars, his other passions included traveling and collecting antiquities. 

The sign for his office.

A few of Freud's personal belongings.

Some antiquities that he collected.

Evidence of his giving lectures at Clark University in America.

A ceramic stove for heating purposes.

Freud's microtom came from Heidelberg.

I look through the peephole on Freud's door before leaving the museum.

Upon returning to the hotel, I see Ben and Alex comfortably using the wi-fi on their cell phones in the hotel lobby.

In the evening, Jacob and I take the subway to St. Stephan's Cathedral to listen to a Romanian choir sing.

Jacob and me in front of the main entrance for St. Stephan's Cathedral.

The program for the choir performance.

The altar at St. Stephan's Cathedral.

Jacob and I sit near the crucifix. 

The choir.

The conductor.

For the second to the last song, the choir surrounds the audience 

and some singers play musical instruments, creating a cacophony of singing and sounds.

Here you see the female singer to the far left twirling a hand instrument.

The last song involves the choir clapping and stomping.