Vienna is officially the city worldwide with the largest area within city limits devoted to vineyards. Just one of the many reasons I live here! 🙂
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Archive | July, 2018
Heatwave
28 JulIt’s going to be hot the next few days. Here are a few tips from today’s Kurier on how how to stay cool in a city that until recently has largely eschewed air-conditioning.
1 Follow the heat-crazed tourists to the bars and restaurants of luxury hotels. Guaranteed temperature 19°C.
2 Go to a fishmonger’s. Hopefully, everything there is on ice.
3 Churches, basilica, and cathedrals. Now is the perfect time for appreciating art history and quiet reflection.
4 Cinema. Go to one matinee after the other.
Finally, you could get into your car, turn the air-conditioning on full blast, and drive for hours around the block.
I hope some of these tips help you enjoy the weekend.
Wien ist ein Dorf (Vienna is a village)
25 JulThis evening I decided to try out a pizzeria, highly recommended by friends, near Maylo’s vet. The head waiter came to take my order and opened with “Hallo, Nachbarin!” (“Hello, neighbor!”) I looked up and saw the man who was my neighbor for a number of years before moving out a few years ago without a word to me. Vienna is, as people keep telling me, a village.
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