Category Vienna
Wien, ganz anders
Another month of intensive Deutschkurs has come and gone with dazzling speed. My big takeaway from this round is that I need to work much harder on building vocabulary. Learning increasingly complicated grammar is one thing, learning it with an inadequate vocabulary at my command adds a whole new layer of frustration and annoyance, mostly […]
lange Nacht der Museen
Saturday night was Vienna’s Long Night of the Museums. Over one-hundred-twenty museums were open from 18:00 to 01:00, and a 13€ ticket got you into as many as your could manage. In six and a half hours I managed: Josephinum, a collection of medical wax models the Tooth Museum, right around the corner from the […]
the Vienna pigeon index
I’m back in Vienna for another one-month intensive German class. Classes are held right across the street from the Staatsoper on the Ringstraße, and if I arrive a bit early, I sometimes kill time in Schiller Platz (there’s a statue of Schiller) in front of the Academy of Fine Arts. Despite it being within a […]
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