Movie Reviews

Guten morgen, guten tag, guten abend, und guten nacht.

A visit to Mauthausen Concentration Camp

August 24 Monday While today is meant to be another proper free day I have instead elected to spend most of my day enjoying my rituals before taking some time to prepare for our visit to the IAEA (international atomic energy agency) tomorrow. In preparing for this visit I've taken some time, as prompted, to do research on how the UN and the IAEA are covered in the international news. In particular I noticed just how easy it was to find a plethora of articles on the UN and IA

Getting lost and revisiting history

August 20 Thursday Today began in the slow Viennese fashion to which I had come accustomed. Starting my day a little later than normal as we didn't have to meet until 2 today for our tour I had my regular chai latte at the nearby cafe O'Pal. After sitting for a couple hours I made the 20ish minute walk down to the museum quartier for our tour at the Leopold museum. The Leopold museum was founded in the late 20th century at the behest of the Austrian government when they part

A trip to the belvedere and a rendition of Vivaldi's four season's at Karlskirche

A day and a half in Prague

Leaving the Alps and heading to Prague

A trip to the military history museum of Vienna

Day trip to Klosterneuberg

August 7 Friday The German word for today was der Korper, body, and normally I would make my own sentence but for today I needed to take the example. Du hast einen perfekten korper, or, you have got a perfect body, quite scandalous from the word of the day people I say. Today was our last lecture for the week and the last time many of us will see each other until our trip to Klosterneuberg monday, Speaking of which I have shouldered the burden of figuring out when and where

Churches, pints, and art-history

A trip to the river and evening at the weinhof

A long drive, a longer flight, and the first days in Vienna.