Extremely unexpectedly to everyone involved (i.e. me) I here present a spanking new update from Vienna. When I announced (sounds pretty grand huh?) a planned visit to Vienna and IIASA, a surprisingly large number of people (>2) asked if this would also mean the Return of the Blog. Apparently people really believed me (and cared) when I said I wouldn’t stop writing until I reached 100 posts. And who knows – maybe I won't…!?
Anyway, I’m back in Vienna for a week at IIASA, to sort of keep the contact alive. Again staying in the 10th district – the hood of great kebabs, closeness to the Laxenburg bus and awesome icecream. Again sharing drinks and laughs with great people – last night, for example, we ended up inventing a rum equivalent of tequila: 1) salt 2) rum 3) banana (almost competitive actually). And again taking great pleasure in the little differences – cash is king, smoking is allowed in bars, cafés and restaurants and the toilets have a bajshylla (sorry English speaking people, just can’t come up with a good enough translation to that one). Yes, Vienna is still great :-)
Oh, and to you people who live here more or less continuously – my deepest apologies for me bringing the Swedish re-winter weather, just when you started getting used to the nice spring temperatures (roughly equivalent to Swedish midsummer temps)…..
Meeting spring in Vienna, as someone said
(and yes, that's proper snow...)
(and yes, that's proper snow...)
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