Shopping!

Or maybe I should say, “shopping?” 

Never really my favourite thing,  but the decision was made to brave the crowds.  Turns out it wasn’t all that bad. 

Earlier on though,  the forces were out closing off the main drag again for the second “Advent Saturday” on Mariahilferstraße.

 

The whole notion of turning the entire street into a pedestrian zone is still a little lost on me,  since even by 1:00 p.m. when we were on our way back,  there still wasn’t that much of a crowd that the whole street was needed.   But hey, what do I know?  Maybe next Saturday it’ll be busier.

 

We decided to head over to the train station to do some shopping.

No,  I don’t smoke any of that “whacky tabacky” either.  They’ve been renovating the west train station since some time in 2008 and there was a grand opening last week.  There’s now a multi-level shopping mall with some 90 shops.   It was actually a reasonably pleasant experience,  and that’s as far as I’m willing to go when it comes to describing shopping.   Can’t say what we bought,  since there are Christmas presents involved,  and we won’t go there.

On the train station end of things,  it’s kinda large.

Not really a well thought out photo,  but there were people sitting right there in a café of some sort,  and I didn’t really want to shoot over their heads.

The building itself if quite impressive,  although I’m not so sure I’d want to be right up there in that corner during an earthquake.  There hasn’t been a quake here since 1590,  but I still think I’d want something under me besides a lot of sky.

Here’s a pic I took back in October from another angle.

 

Not feeling very chatty today,  so you get off easy.

Enjoy your weekend.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

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