We fly with Air Berlin from Berlin Tegel to Vienna. It is comfortable and cheap. Berlin and Vienna are both cultural cities, but the contrast cannot be bigger. Whereas Berlin is working on its future, Vienna is cultivating its past. This is the town of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Schubert, Schoenberg, Sissi, Franz Joseph, Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, Freud. Where else can you find such a high concentration of celebrities? Near Stephansdom we run into a group of Mozart lookalikes. If we are interested in a concert, they ask. They show us the program, all works of Mozart, like Don Giovanni. "There are only a few tickets left Sir", they warn, "so be quick!" Actually the concerthall is closed during summerholidays, so we wonder who is going to give the concert. Students? We walk on
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