I wanted to title this post by the name that appears over the doorway of the arcade, a narrow and delightful shopping passageway right through one of Vienna’s old-city buildings.

That would be the “Something-Complicated-in-German Passage.” I’m not very good at German, so I looked it up on Google Translate and discovered that this is the “Until Revoked Permitted Passage.”

Lovely! It’s a private way, and their lawyers don’t want to take the chance that through accepted use it might become a public passage. I need a sign like this for the private right-of-way across our property on Block Island! Except, of course, in English.

Thankfully, passage was not revoked on the day we were there, and so we were able to admire the elegant space and its wonderful detailing.

We stopped inside one of the shops (Xocolat, a chocolate store) and it was pretty nice too…

…and passed by a charming indoor-outdoor cafe.

Finally, we arrived at the courtyard where we would laterr learn that Cafe Central also sometimes set up tables.