[Leica] IMG: Saturday Signs from Salzburg

[Nathan Wajsman]

Regarding the Austrian tendency to portray themselves as co-victims of WWII rather than enthusiastic applauders, this is precisely the reason why I avoided visiting that country for many years. This is in contrast to Germany which has and continues to own up to the terrible legacy, and is a country that I always enjoy visiting (I am flying to Munich tomorrow morning, in fact). Despite living for 3 years in next door Switzerland, I only set foot in Austria when I had to for business reasons—we had an annual company event in Schruns, a ski resort in Austria, which I was forced to attend. But I never went to Vienna or Salzburg or any of the other cities.

That is, until I visited Vienna in November 2015 in connection with a conference and fell in love with that city. My one-sentence version of my impression is: “as beautiful as Rome but clean and with public transport that works.”

I found the Herzl plaque particularly interesting, BTW, perhaps because it is a memorial to the general anti-Semitism that prevailed in the 19th century, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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> On 23 Jul 2017, at 08:15, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe there's something to that cliche about Central European neurosis?
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/35259481984/in/dateposted-public/>
> 
> Inconvenient truth 1
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/36059220136/in/dateposted-public/>
> 
> Inconvenient truth 2
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/35291756913/in/dateposted-public/>
> 
> Too nice for this role:
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/35291756983/in/dateposted-public/>
> 
> --Peter
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