WUK courtyard

RT guitar magnifico, Red Elephants and Albertina art

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July 1st 2011
Earnest readers may well recall that the whole purpose of a (revisit) to Vienna (I was here in a cold and wet October 2010) was to catch a concert by my guitar hero Richard Thompson last night, 30 June, at the WUK in Vienna (which as I am sure you can guess is the “Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus”). No wuckers indeed. This required leaving Zagreb at 7.25am on the only direct train to Vienna. Inte ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more