Our path to Vienna took us from Venice north. The last major town before entering the mountains... time to stop, take a walk, and eat something was Udine. The city is not mentioned in any of the tourbooks we have and certainly not in the Jewish tourbook. We parked close to the old city ("Centrum") and walked towards the cobblestone streets. There, in the center we found many German-speaking tourists and many high-quality shops. We also found a few lovely piazzas and a big museum a the top of a hill. When we climbed to the top facing the other side of the city, there, in the wall was a plaque to (one of my "culture heroes") L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto!