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Wandering in Vienna

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I've just spent 4 days in Vienna, for the Frequency Festival, and for the town itself of course.

The town is great, the buildings are really beautiful. The streets are wide (public lighting is most of the time hung in the middle of the streets, having no lamp "bodies" on the sidewalks make them really wide), and oh god, it's so clean : no cigaret ends, no craps on the floor, almost no posters (compared to Paris), and the main part of the posters I've seen are about art exhibitions, it may sound so silly but it's hard to find this in Paris !

The public transports network is awesome :
- It's, again, and I really insist on it, so clean, no ugly graffitis or scratches (I precise : I have nothing against artistic and beautiful graffitis, I love them, but the little nicknames written with a felt pen everywhere with no more artistic sens than vomit, I just can't stand them).
- Still no ads... I mean, just come to Paris and see how much you're assaulted by posters claiming that the tomatoes are only 1 euro in such shop, or how you do feel better and stronger with such clothes or whatever
- it's brightly set up : each lines of the subway (the "U-bahn") has a specific color, which is common would you say, except that the props you'll find in the stations, banisters for instance, do have the same color than the line they serve, it's just simply ingenious
- and the best : there's no gates. No. Gates. I mean, what the hell, there must be such a civic and polite education that people doesn't cheat on this paying no tickets ? You'll NEVER find this in Paris, never.

I've never been shoved out at anytime by people (even in the festival !) except at one time : when I got into a church to listen to Mozart's requiem, people was from everywhere but Vienna. Shhh... tourists.

And then you come back to Paris.
You take the "RER B" to go from the airport to the center of the town, and finally you realize.
After only four days, I keep in mind an idea I've never really noticed before : we french people (especially in Paris I guess) are just ****ing gross barbarian porks.

















Bobby Mc Ferrin, Live in ParisSomewhere in the French countryside...

Comments

MrPingouin Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:56:20 AM

I was wandering with my Olympus XA and fujifilm xtra 800.

Next time I think I'll take back my Canon A1, I have lost too many pictures because of a bad focus, it'll be easier with this one I guess/hope.

Liu Monday, August 31, 2009 10:09:14 PM

Oh I wish I could do the same picts as you ! You are talentuous MrPingouin !
And thank you for the Vienna Tour, it could be a nice european destination one day... wink

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:52:05 AM

Neofire writes: Wow, some pictures are really great! Actually, there are lots of places where you won't find any gates in the undeground, like New York for example. In London, if you ride the bus without validating your ticket, people will almost throw you out of the bus themselves!

fabunbutaps!!!fabunbutaps Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:55:16 PM

exellent text & pictures bro and it's true the nicknames near graffs are bullshit they brokes the graff

what do you think about paris? crazy town isn't it?

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