vendredi 6 février 2009

A travel to Austria

Hello!

Do you like this house ?
Where is it? Did you hear from this architect, who has created such houses with plants and strange shapes? Are you surprised to get to know, that you can see this house in Vienna? This artist was called Hundertwasser and was an active and provocative ecologist.
This building had council flats but it was old and the municipality charged Hundertwasser renovating it in the 80's years.
The rents are not really expensive and everybody can get a flat there.

But I think you have other ideas about Austria and his inhabitants.



Perhaps the girls think of the Empress Elisabeth, who was so beautiful and so thin. Or they think of her love story with the Emperor, who was supposed to marry her sister Helena, but fell in love, as soon as he saw Sissi.





What do Austrians cook very well and like to eat?

What do they like to drink?
Coffee? Tea? Wine? Beer?

What about a "Wiener Mélange" with a " Apfelstrudel?" at "Café Demel" and a chat with your friends?


What else?

Austrians can ski as soon as they come into the world but they are bad footballplayers.
They all play music very well because they are Mozart's, Schubert's and Strauss' descendants.
They carry a tyrolean hat and leathertrousers.
They waltz around the room every evening.
They are xenophobe.( to us because we guillotined Maria-Antonia and kidnapped Maria-louisa for our Emperor Napoleon, I.)

Perhaps you know something in this way about the Austrians. I would like to read your comments.
Good bye!

3 commentaires:

  1. That house is awesome. I wish i'd settle down in a crazy house like this one day.
    Or in a woodhouse in a tree. On a thaï island called Kho something.
    Anyway that's another subject :)

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  2. Yeah the house is really impressive. I wish they would do that more often - green is such a refreshing colour to find, ironically, in a "concrete jungle".

    By the way, we talk about "the 1980s" or just the 80s (eighties), and we use the word "rent" in the singular.

    I don't really have any preconceived ideas about the Austrians. Do they have any famous stereotypes like the French have the baguette, the beret, the cigarette and the moustache? :P

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  3. I'm agree with the others about the house!
    but i don't know anything about austrian people. I imagine the capital would be very beautiful but this culture is totally unknown for me. It's different for german people... about them i have a lot of stereotype to tell you, but here we are talking about austrian!

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