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So if you look at the picture of the day (which usually means nothing) you will see a space that is entirely covered in European Soccer fans watching the games of their favorite football players...thats right, about a million people are coming to Wien for the next 3 weeks to watch soccer soccer soccer, make lots and lots of noise, and take showers that have been constructed as a part of the temporary facility that is shutting down a large portion of the ringstrasse. Okay, maybe the showers are a bit extreme, but its true, along with the adidas peformance stages, 500 concession stands, 10 big screens and countless portapotties and drinking fountains that look like rockets. Also, all major sculptures have scaffolding constructed around them so that hooligans coming to the city dont hurt them!
I did a bit of people watching today on the Kartner strasse. It was so loud! Croatians just walked around cheering and singing at each other, wearing their jerseys, which im sure they wont take off until they kill 92nd ranked Austria tomorrow in the first round. in fact, Austria is so bad that there was a petition for them to not play, despite the fact that they are the hosting city and automatically get that right, because they are going to be really humiliated. Go Osterreich!
Other than people watching I just kinda hung around. It was nice to have a breather after the crazy week of work! Thank goodness for three day weekends...every weekend!
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