in the shadows of churches

holy smokes i need a shower......
this is kermit the frog here reporting to you live from vienna austria.....where they have almost successfully roped all the big old things into one main area, finally somebody was thinking.
arriving here yesterday just in time to walk right through a film shoot, consider asking for work and then meet my host florian and a few of his flatmates near the donau kanal not the neue donau (danube for the straight english volks). i thought i was learning german but i must say this is austrian and while it bares a slight bit of resemblence to standard german it is not. but this is a beautiful city and the internet here is wicked cheap so this may be another long rambling post from the kevateria.......
i think one of my initial comments to florian was how many young people i apparently thought i saw here which i think he proceeded to chuckle at saying that was funny since wien is notable or was up until about 10 years ago for how many old people lived there. i guess they all died since then though i have to admit to seeing many more older people today but it was still early and maybe the youngins were sleeping....but matt would enjoy the churches here for sure there being two gothic churches completely under construction so not worth the pictures fellas no worries but only half the size of the koelner dom so all in all except that they were beautiful to look at you´ve seen the koelner dom and that takes the cake and the icing too.....in fact i don´t hesitate to say i´ve found the biggest construction site yet of the entire trip if ever there was one the whole Fing city is under construction or at least most of the churches and city center buildings and monuments seemingly a push to facilitate what was started maybe 15 years ago as florian explained it to me - not the construction sites but what follows about the mayor - about 15 or so years ago wien got a new mayor who was leaning social democrat in a previously staunch conservative christian state and since then things such as nightlife have made their way into the commonplace things like street cafes and biergartens were previously unheard of but i asked if this continued today with the current mayor and he replied yes but he had a funny theory that he attributed to a professor of his from muenchen that maybe it is possible that the current mayor in fact does not exist in reality explaining further that he is rarely if ever seen publicly or on television and is sometimes shown in pictures but always drinking a bier and looking almost as a stereotype of the austrian kitchen meaning Fleisch und Bier amost every day and having the shape of a slightly older man meaning what we might refer to as a beer gut and so i found this komisch and asked if florian believed this also and he says maybe yes this mayor doesn´t exist in reality......imagine Bloomberg.......hmmm....but anyway my own theory has developed into that this physical construction is maybe a near last step in faciliting the demographic change the city here has been undergoing the last whatever some years......
and somebody think about this the best restaurant i have ever personally been privy to called 'all you can eat pay what you want' and cut my tongue off if i am joking excellent indian food self-service eat as much as you want and then estimate what you think you want to owe free water mostly vegetarian vegan amazing interior space off the main street and didn´t seem to be people there to take advantage of it and i don´t mean take advantage of the experience i mean take advantage of the establishment and eat them out of house and home which i pictured happening if we tried something like this in nyc everyone feeling they are most deserving....and the city bikes are clunky and old and don´t go very fast but are most certainly free to use for the first hour and everywhere in wien is accessible within less than one hour easy go to the closest u-bahn station swipe your card pick your bike ride wherever you are going find the closest u-bahn station and return the bike do your thing go back to the station repeat never pay for public transport and get exercise daily take two of these and call me in the morning.
i´ll see you shortly in salzburg fellas mike boogie down geneva birthday in stuttgart.............love you all