This is the same room that all of his sessions took place at. The walls were covered with pictures of Freud's colleagues, family, and famous patients. The whole place was really cool, but it was hard to imagine what it was like without any furniture or remains from Freud's house. There is one room, but it is the waiting room and therefor not too interesting. Oh, I did learn one very important thing: Freud did cocaine. Maybe that's where he got all of his ideas from!
Oh, and this was Freud's official document certifying him as a psychologist. History!
The other tours took the group through the center of the city, but I would go back by myself later on the trip. The subway was the quickest and easiest way to navigate the city. This was my first time in a subway, but I adapted pretty quickly. It doesn't sound hard, but it really is when everything is in a different language. This subway took me to the heart of the city: Stephansplatz!
The heart of the city is Stephansplatz, which featured an amazing amount of stores. Since this was inside of the original walls of Vienna, there are tons of tightly packed buildings. There was shopping, food, and history everywhere!
As far as history goes, what you see in this picture is the "Carpenter's Tree." This sad little piece of wood stuck behind glass use to be a main destination for European carpenters. The idea was that anyone who was a serious carpenter would eventually travel to Vienna and mark that he was there by putting a nail into this tree. If you get really close to the glass you can see that the "tree" is completely covered with nails.
The American Bar was over priced and had a secret entrance to a brothel located next to it. Why? I don't know. I just kept walking.
This huge statue...thing...was located in the middle of Stephansplatz. I don't know what it was there for or what it represented. I'm going to take a guess that it was dedicated to the glory of Vienna or something like that. History!
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