The Third Man

Walking in the Belvedere Spanish School horse-head Inside the Cathedral Drivers await fares, with horses Art in our new hotel, Le Meridien Horizon, evening mood as some painters would say, from our verandah

Wonderful visit to the Belvedere to see their Klimt collection, including ‘The Kiss’, in which the male looks vampiric and the female unconscious, but lovely nonetheless. Also interesting to see the likes of Jacques Louis David’s portrait of Napoleon on a rearing horse, while his poor troops trudged up towards a distant pass, some of them almost buried already, only their bayonets showing as they climb through a defile. History in the making. One expected delight today was stumbling on the Spanish School and seeing some of the horses.

Oh, and reading again a website entry about Cafe Mozart, I discovered that this is where Graham Green worked on the script for the film of The Third Man – and that the theme tune is also known as the Cafe Mozart Waltz.