For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.
I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
My small experience on 'Dancing with the Stars' allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.
What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.
If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.
Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.