November (so far)

After that Oktober quickie, I'm almost up to date! Let's see what's been happening...

November 1 is All Saint's Day. Since Austria is largely, largely Catholic, the holiday is seriously celebrated here, and banks and schools are closed. Citizens go to the graves of loved ones and do yearly care-taking and decorating. (Halloween, by contrast, isn't widely celebrated, though it's catching on among the younger generations. Even trick-or-treating. Free candy?! Internationally appealing!)

Wall of the Zentralfriedhof

For this reason, then, a friend and I went to the Zentralfriedhof (the central cemetery) to celebrate (is that the appropriate word here?) with the Viennese. The Zentralfriedhof is HUGE. I've heard that the Viennese like to say that it's half the size of Geneva but twice as lively. :)

The end of Oktober

I've been disturbingly bad at updating my blog (much, much worse than I thought I would be. I'm guessing it's the fault of lack of habit), but here are some highlights from the end of Oktober (in pictures): 

walking the Wienerwald (Vienna forest) while the leaves are changing