View from the Stammtisch

About three blocks down from our hotel we saw the yellow glow from the lights of the Alte Post Hotel and found the menu in their window to our liking. Inside it was deserted and we sat down at a central table. After we got comfortable I saw a sign indicating this was the Stammtisch, a table normally reserved for the local regulars. Our waiter didn't make us move but he was a bit surly.

South of the Border

February 17th 2012
You would think that after going 36 hours without sleep, except for a half hour snooze during Shakespeare on the plane, that I would've had a long night's rest once I climbed into bed. Yet I was up most of the night coughing my brains out. I assume I was allergic to the feather bed or some alien German mould in our room. I kept my poor mother awake as well. But when breakfast ... 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

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