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On Sunday the somehow annual meeting of Flickr people in Vienna – mainly from the “Guess Where Vienna” group – took place. As I’m on Flickr just for half a year or so it was the first time I was at one of that meetings.

So the first part of the meeting was a photo walk. We (about 30 people) met at the Ottakring U3 terminus/S-Bahn stop in the afternoon and set off towards the city center. Or destination was the Siebensternbräu in Siebensterngasse in the 7th district where we planned to have something to eat and drink afterwards. On the way of course we took quite a lot of pictures.

We passed the Familienkirche, the Ottakringer brewery, crossed the Gürtel at Josefstädterstraße and continued to Neubaugasse and finally Siebensterngasse. So at about 6pm we reached Siebensternbräu, sat down at our previously reserved table and had a drink. It was just when the first of us had already ordered something to eat that the quarrel with the waiter started. Well two people in the group had also brought their children to the meeting and those children were killing time in the beer garden while waiting for their meal. This was already a thing for the waiters to argue about and somewhere in mid conversation he said very loudly “The children MUST stay seated at the table!!”.
I don’t know who actually started this quarrel and actually I don’t wanna know because it’s none of my business. But still we decided very quickly that we wanted to get out of this place, asap. That’s what we did after we finished out drinks/meals.

So after this some of us went home but the bigger part of the group decided to go to some other place which was to be Plutzerbräu, just a few meters away. We had a really nice evening there, looking at pictures, obviously taking a lot of pictures as well and talking about this and that. So when this place finally closed around midnight most had already gone home. A funny episode was still that before we got out some of us (including me) wanted to go to the toilet once again, but it was completely dark inside and there was no switch to be seen. So we asked the waiter to switch it on again but he told us that the light in there is controlled by an automatic timer and that there is no way he can manually switch it on.
Well so the remaining few of us decided that it was still too early to go home. Nearly every place was closed by that time (Sunday night) but then I learned to know the backup location for such a case, the Europa in Zollergasse, which acutally is a really nice place. We had one more drink there and that finally was it.

I have to say that it was definitely worth it going to that meeting. It was nice to get to know some of the people in person who’s photos I’m looking at and exchanging comments with regularly.

To see all of my photos from that afternoon/evening go here. There is also a dedicated group for this meeting here, where you can also have a look at other participants’ photos.