You can get anything you want (but…)

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 …

Blood on the Tracks (and everywhere else, maybe)

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 …

It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)

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 …