Monthly Archives: September 2022

After we’d finished picturing Wolfgang, Constanze, and young Karl Thomas spending their days and nights in the flat at Domgasse 5, our guide Martha took us to a few other points of interest in Vienna’s first district. First we passed …

We’ve come through the dark night in Vienna to a brighter morning. Vocally, one might say today’s post shifts the dynamics and perhaps shapes a livelier melody as we walk in the footsteps of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van …

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to reveal that while the first three posts of my first full day in Vienna are, as far as I can make them, accurate descriptions of the places as I experienced them …

I decided to write today’s post in red because it’s about my walk to and past the Ungarisches Haus (Hungarian House) at 12 Augustinerstraße – the Vienna home of Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Elizabeth was born to a noble family in …

Looking around Judenplatz (Jewish Square) today it’s hard to fathom the extent of Austria’s long dark history with its Jewish population and the horrors that happened here. Take the short walk from Hoher Markt to Judenplatz, enter the square through …