I’m probably approaching 50 lifetime trips to/from Vienna. Amazingly I’ve never experienced any serious travel disturbances. About the worst that has happened so far is that I got into Syracuse at 2:45am instead of 10pm back when I was in college. So maybe I’m due for some travel insanity. I just got on a New…
Category: Vienna
Lost in Translation Series: The Actual Information
Spotted on a board at the Wien-Speising station of the Vienna S-Bahn that informs riders of service changes. The text reads: Dear Passengers, Planning your travel please consider the actual information. The actual is probably the result of a bad attempt by the ÖBB (which runs the S-Bahn) to translate aktuell, which means current. However,…
Handbills Banned on One Side of Mariahilfer Straße
Ducking from and slipping on handbills is going to be a thing of the past on one side of Mariahilfer Straße, Vienna’s busiest shopping street. Why only one side? Because the street forms the border between two of Vienna’s districts, and only one of these has banned their distribution. Mariahilf, Vienna’s 6th District, run by…