Traveler Notes - Chapter 12 Trip To Austria 1

Austria is an amazing country. Former empire. Cities with ancient architecture, traditions, and culture. Various trade routes and roads passed through it.

There are impressive castles, palaces, towers, not to mention the amazing mountain lakes and ski resorts.

In the Vienna suburb of the Austrian capital, you can find wonderful little distilleries as well as cafes, where you can have a hearty and not very expensive lunch, enjoying Austrian hospitality.

And the city of Vienna itself amazes its supermarkets, special shopping streets, such as Maria Strasse. Ringo Platz, the city hall where the famous Viennese points are held. And still lie on the roof of the building, according to local guides, the core of the Turkish army, which besieged the city, but could not conquer it.

Vienna is diverse, in it, you can meet representatives of all nationalities. There are few root crowns themselves, as well as Muscovites. A lot of peculiar “limiters”.

Separate quarters are purely ethnic, occupied by immigrants from Turkey or Serbia.

Due to a large number of international organizations such as OPEC, UN-city, etc. Vienna is a passage yard for three continents.
for visiting.

Vienna of the late 90s of the last century was more elegant than that. In supermarkets, expensive goods from Western Europe were sold, black bread was always tasty, crunchy and cost not so expensive. But with the introduction of the euro and the rejection of the national currency – the shillings, prices jumped up in supermarkets, instead of quality goods, products from eastern Europe began to appear, some western goods disappeared from supermarkets altogether. They could only be found at specialized points. But brown bread has become expensive, something around 3.5-9 euros, but the quality was not right.

The estate hosts musical evenings, culinary masterclasses, as well as dinner parties. A colleague said that the prices there are decent, about 200-500 euros. But this is more likely for the elite.

The tour was free, a guide by his former history teacher. She moved from room to room and talked about the famous composer and immediately pressed the button on the radio, from where the beautiful sounds of Schubert’s works flowed.

In that small town of the entire population of about 1300 people, before it was about 3000, but some died, others went to large cities. Out of 1300, about 300 new residents, houses are bought by wealthy Europeans from all over the EU. The houses are small, but very cozy, with their small gardens. They cost about 200 thousand euros. But many rent them. Vienna is approximately 90-100 km.

Order and silence reign in the town; there is a post office, a bank, a police station, and a fire department. The streets are paved. At the entrance, three flags hang – Earth, Country and European Union.

Suddenly we are overtaken by a well-worn Mercedes and rushing along the oncoming lane and there a big bus, barely avoiding a head-on collision, disappears around the bend. Colleague, swearing. Car number from one EU country. Heard – dissatisfied, everyone came in large numbers, they do not know how to drive …

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