Country: Austria

Austria reaches me as an empire folded away and a music that outlived it; Vienna is a capital I have furnished in full and never once visited.

  • Charcoal sketch of the single Gothic spire of St Stephen's rising over the old roofs of Vienna at first light, the great Ferris wheel faint in the distance - never been abroad

    Vienna

    Vienna is a capital built for an empire that no longer exists, and I have furnished a whole one of my own without ever buying the ticket.

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