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Perchtoldsdorf, Niederösterreich
Through a series of unusual events and accidents I find myself en route to Perchtoldsdorf, a village on the outskirts of Vienna. This involves catching the number 60 tram from Westbahnhof to Rodaun and then a long walk. The journey is fascinating in itself, travelling through centuries of the built environment. Traces of buildings from…
A Day in Vienna
As I walked along Sechshauser Straße to the local shops I noticed a Stolperstein in the pavement in memory of Salomon (Sigi) and Ottilie Reinstein. It did exactly what it is designed to do. It made me stop and think. I stood there for some time looking at the stone and the door and the…
Penzing Vienna, A Radical Walk
Vienna has its odd corners, crinkles in the landscape, curios that no-one knows anything about and pockets of resistance to decades of fashionable change. Such places are rarely sumptuous but they often include things striking and unusual. These places are about discovery rather than broadcast. We find them seemingly by chance, rather than being told…
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