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Tag Archives: Vienna
How we live now
The Economist offers up its annual assessment of the world’s most livable cities and the absolute hellholes to avoid. I’m not surprised to see Copenhagen at the top of the list once again, but I have reservations about Vienna being number … Continue reading
Cemetery Hamsters are not a new band
When I first saw a story online about wild hamsters living in a Vienna cemetery, I naturally thought that it was a joke. The video below proves just how wrong I was. Turns out that there are native wild hamsters … Continue reading
There are no kangaroos in Austria
Award-winning photographer Kirill Neiezhmakov has created a brilliant hyperlapse tour of Vienna, Austria that plays on the popular longstanding joke that there are no kangaroos in Austria. The very entertaining timelapse video of Vienna explores many of the historic city’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Film, Museums, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Austria, Timelapse, Vienna, Wien
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Vienna Waits For You
Regular visitors to Travel Between The Pages know that I appreciate a well done tourism campaign. However, I was perplexed when my favorite blog follower shared the newest tourism video from the Vienna Tourist Board. I’ve been a huge fan … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, Film, History, Museums, Tourism
Tagged Austria, Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Wien
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When Museumgoers Gotta Go
Over the years I’ve visited hundreds of museums in dozens of countries and I’ve seen my share of museum bathrooms. Many are unmemorable institutional facilities, but many are worthy design destinations. The American Alliance of Museums polled their members on their favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Museums, USA
Tagged Art Museums, Baltimore Museum of Art, Mass MoCA, SFMOMA, Vienna
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It’s only in my dreams that I am so sinister
(Friday, June 11, 1920) It’s only in my dreams that I am so sinister. Recently I had another dream about you, it was a big dream, but I hardly remember a thing. I was in Vienna, I don’t recall anything … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Writing
Tagged Austria, Franz Kafka, letters, Milena Jesenski, Prague, Vienna
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Music by Miles
I recently ran across this wonderful video below featuring images by the late Saul Leiter accompanied by the sublime music of Miles Davis. It reminded me of an exhibition of Leiter’s photographs and painting that I happened to see the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, Film, Museums, Music, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Miles Davis, NYC, Saul Leiter, Vienna
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Das Neue Europa
In the aftermath of World War I, many politicians, political scientists, philosophers, and even cartographers offered innovative proposals to restructure Europe. P.A. Maas, an Austrian publisher, suggested a wildly creative way to re-imagine Europe as a political entity. “Does anyone … Continue reading
Vienna is like…
I don’t know anything about the short film below titled Vienna is like… except that it was directed by the award winning Argentine filmmaker Fernando Livschitz. But if love Wien half as much as I do, you will adore this very clever, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Europe, Freedom of Speech, Tourism
Tagged Austria, Film, Vienna, Wien
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Reading Cities
When I am planning my travels, I always spend time reading about the destinations. Those of you who follow TBTP know that I am devoted to old school travel guidebooks, but I also do my due diligence by reading both … Continue reading
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