At home in Vienna

If I were told that the city was once part of Bavaria, I would believe it. The buildings and parks, its size and quietness, the hospitality of the people and the language, everything remembered me to Munich.
Not only the Opera plays an important role in the life of Viennese but also other forms of arts. You just have to stroll around the Museumsquartier or come across a street concert of military music to realise this.
The Schönbrunn Palace, the former imperial summer residence, with its tidy geometrical gardens offers a wonderful view of the city. Unmissable!
The best way to travel around is the bike. There is an automatic renting system with stations all around the city. If you are a good planner, you can get the most of the first free hour and bike without paying a cent.
During the last day I came across a argentinian restaurant. I wanted to eat a "choripan" but the grill wasn't open. It was two o'clock in the afternoon but the Viennese are used to lunch late on Sundays. Then I was offered some "empanadas" and I met the president of the Argentinian Centre in Vienna, a footballer and a software engineer. If wouldn't have to take the plane so early, I would have eaten home-made "ñoquis". What a pity!

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The trendsetter of german culture

As soon I walked across the Alexander Platz I felt the special atmosphere of Berlin. There were some groups of Punks and Gothics sitting at the stairs with a shopping mall and some skyscrapers at their back. I little far away some street artists where entertaining tourists. This was the main square of the communist Berlin. Now it has a abnormal mix of unique history and thriving modernity.
Berlin is really big compared to other German cities. This makes it impossible to see everything in just one weekend. Every corner has its story, the museums are monumental and there are many worth-to-see neighbourhoods, each of them with its own character. So I stayed in Mitte and stepped my foots for a couple of hours in Postdamer Platz.
Although I have seen the Wall, I can still not get the idea of a city closed to the world where its citizens can only travel abroad by plane. And the huge length of the barrier is unimaginable.
It must be said that it isn't as comfortable -distances are huge-, quite and clean as other German urban centres. There are lots of empty buildings, some streets are dark and there are people living in usurped houses.
All in all, it is a lively city and if I were still a student, I would be living there.

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Near the train station of the communist Berlin the longest, best-preserved and most interesting stretch of the Wall can be seen. In 1990 it was turned into an open-air gallery by international artists.

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Cerca de la estación de Berlin del Este hay un tramo intacto del muro.

The nomad moves to a new house

Since last week I'm living in a new place. It was exactly what I was looking for: I wanted to live with Germans because they are uncomplicated people and to improve my German. I had luck and all my flat mates are very interesting and have travelled a lot.
The shared house is a little far from my work. The journey takes around 40 minutes, which it is a lot in Germany but not in Buenos Aires, nevertheless I live in a nice quiet neighbourhood and I can use the garden on sunny days.

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