Day 248: Strassebahn traffic jam
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Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing &
friends.
Day
248 — Strassebahn traffic jam
06-April-1972
(Donnerstag–Thur.)
TRANSCRIPT
Practiced and spent time
in El. Musik but didn’t get much done.
Saw a funny thing today. On way back home, there was
an accident by the opera, and a strassebahn was
involved. From that point back, the strassebahns were
backed up past the Parliament. Quite a distance and
quite a few strassebahns.
Went to see An
Italian
in Algiers at the Volksoper. Herr
Gabler played very well. The opera was very funny
because it was so dumb with all of the mädchen
running around in the harem. There was more use of
the opera glasses tonight. Afterwards, went out for a
drink with Herr Gabler, Hamel, Mike, and Jean-Pierre.
Good discussion.
REFLECTIONS
Traffic
jam. Today
included an unusual sight to see. I don’t mention the
public Vienna strassebahns very often, but they are a
wonderful form of transportation. They are the street
cars, electric cable cars, so common to European
cities (and San Francisco). It is such a great form
of travel. Step on, travel, step off. Rarely do you
get held up in traffic because cars are not allowed
in the strassebahn lanes. I’m not certain if that is
the case today. Regardless, today there is an
accident and the strassebahns are backed up from the
Staatsoper to the Parliament building. That’s quite a
distance.
The opening photo shows a worker doing a bit of
cleanup in the strassebahn lane. I remember being
surprised by the thatched broom.
In Algiers. Tonight,
it’s a light opera at the Volksoper, Rossini’s
An
Italian
in Algiers. It looks
like lots of hamming it up and girls running around
the stage (thus the opera glasses). My horn teacher,
Prof. Gabler, is first horn and plays really well. We
go out for drinks with Prof. Gabler, Hamel,
Jean-Pierre, and Mike G. It looks like we have a good
discussion.
While I don’t remember our friend Hamel, Mike G. was
always at the forefront of our group of friends in
Vienna—he knew the concerts to go to. I am fairly
certain that I found Mike on the Internet. I’ll send
him a letter soon—wouldn’t that be amazing!
Links:
Vienna Volksoper
in
Wikipedia
L’italiana in Algeri
in
Wikipedia
John
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