Brenda's Photo Challenge: Things With Wings

I saw these neet geese in an antique shop's windows display downtown Vienna.
Viennese porcelain produced by Augarten manufactory, mid 19th century, EUR 480,-.
Actually too dear to eat :)

Once you could see them on every street corner,
today they are extinct.
The eagle with two heads - one for Austria and one for Hungary.

By now, the Austrian flag decorates a proud Austrian fleet again.
Three merchant ships,
one in Triest, one in Rotterdam, and one in Hamburg.
They bring us consumer electronics from China.

Since the time of the Monarchy, gambling is nationalized in Austria.

Today, at least two Austrians become LOTTO millionairs every week.
I have figured out that I have a realistic chance to get rich within the next 2.000 years.

Please, keep your fingers crossed for me!

Brenda's Photo Challenge will start on 5 September 2008. Please visit her site!

Brenda's Photo Challenge - SWEETS

This is my first attempt at blogging!

Everybody knows the big Swiss dogs, Bernhardiner, who carry a bottle with Schnaps around their necks and rescue alpinists who have lost their way.
I was not aware that in Vienna dogs are also used as pack animals to carry
SWEET THINGS
on their back :D

Seen in downtown Vienna in a window display.

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