Vincent in Vienna

Saturday was a trip day - to Vienna, with two colleagues of mine: Jana and Jana:-). In Albertina (www.albertina.at) there is an exhibition on Vincent van Gogh's drawings and pictures. We were smart enough to book the tickets in advance via online ticket portal of Albertina to eliminate the queueing time but it didn't help much. Courageous enough we jumped the long line to get to know that we have to stand in the line anyway. The reason I purchased the tickets in advance "kurze Wartezeiten" disappeared. It took us approximately one hour and a half to get in. The nightmare of queues still followed us anyway but once we got in it transformed into a crowd nighmare. 9 rooms stuffed with real art were stuffed with creatures of all races, nationalites and appearencies. No air. If you found 50 square centimeters of space and air...you were lucky.
In 35 minutes I managed to absorb all bits and some masterpieces Vincent painted within his lifetime. Drawings were brief, pictures colorful in general and meaningless in detail. That guy was very talented. Do you smell the shoes?
The artists whose "works" were displayed in the floor above Vincent (Austrian Art in Albertina - From 1970) were less lucky. At least some of them. Only The Red Mouse made sense to me, more or less. The "Micky Mouse" picture is huge!
Other quasi-cultural experience were also present - some shopping in Mariahilferstrasse (Jana and Jana bough a red coat and a pair of high green boots), magnificent Hofburg, coffee in Cafe Ritter and slimy waiter who spoke few Czech words: všechno? (when taking the order), chutná? (when checking if we like what we ordered), skoro deset (when passing us the bill).
We got home and it was skoro deset.