Tuesday night (delayed) – Gruss Dich Wien

Talk about time warps !>. Coming back to Vienna (Wien) was like setting foot back in 1979 again. My friend Karen picked me up at the airport.. Karein and her twin brother Salim were 8 years old when I lived with their family at 43 Graf Starhembergasse . Now they are 50 years old with families of their own. Its not my first trip back to Wien.. I’ve been back about half a dozen times.. but not since 2013 ( ithin(. this is the first time I’ve been back Siem my Haus Frau Helga and Haus Vater Necat had died.. iNecat . I really missed them. Frau Erol was my very good friend.. I felt her presence there..

I enjoyed seeing all the old pictures

Salim showed up and so did big brother Murat.

We had a quick snack then took off for a walk downtown

one stop was Trzesniewskis.. I used to stop there for schnapps and ‘brethren’ on my way to school.. it had not changed at all. we had a few brioche (bread with spread like lox, onions eggs) and some great apricot schnapps

From there we walked up to where my school IES had been.. The Pais Kinskey.. It brought a huge flood of memories back to me .. all my friends .. Sarah, James. Kevin, Alex, David. Chip , Bob, Lauren, Seth, Bruce.. .. and so many others
the place is now some other sort of school.. so great seeing it again!

We then headed west.. .. first stop was Nuri the sardine store.. then up through the Kunstgeschite museum and museum row where there was some great interactive art !

We walked up MariahilferStrassee and got the bus back to Graf starhembergasse.. then a quick schnapps.. THen Saliem and I had to run to catch a train to Baden where Salim lives