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Fertőd is the village in Hungary just across the border from Pamhagen. It has a huge Baroque palace there (which…
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A lot of small towns in Austria have a Mardi Gras carnival, and they often organise them to be on…
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My next work assignment was in a small village called Pamhagen on the Austria-Hungary border. The main hotel in the…
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Győr station is really quite stylish in a 1950s way. I took most of these photos while I was waiting…
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There were a lot of decrepit old wooden windows in Győr old town. Here’s some of the various designs of…
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The Danube at night
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There’s also lots of vintage street signs in Győr. This one says “fabric dyeing and dry cleaning”.
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After working in Vienna for a week I headed off on the train to Győr in Hungary. It’s the regional…
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Vienna has strong rent controls for shops, meaning that many of them are in the same location for decades, leading…
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I also visited Vienna Architecture Centre- I’d never been inside this small museum before, but the entry was thrown in…
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About 15 minutes walk from the school I was working at in Vienna, and next door to the University of…
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On a rare day off in Vienna I went to the Open Studio day at the Vienna Academy of Fine…
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The museum square in Vienna has repurposed a lot of these old vending machines to sell comics, zines, art prints,…
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I’ve been in Vienna and now a tiny village on the Austro-Hungarian border for the last few weeks. Here’s what…
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The Kunsthalle Wien holds temporary exhibitions- I caught the last day of this show. It definitely isn’t the best thing…
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I’ve been back in Vienna since Saturday, but I was busy at the annual work conference. Last year was the…
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The Slovak National Gallery was also open late- it was free that day too because they were changing the exhibitions…
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Zdeněk Miler was a Czech illustrator and animator best known for his character the Little Mole (Krtek or Krteček).
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I’m working in Austria for the next few weeks. I’ve been visiting for the last ten years to run school…
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Here’s some more old films I scanned- this time of Innsbruck from two years ago. Standard Ilford HP5 with a…
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On my way back from the Tyrol, I stayed in Munich en route to the airport, and visited the Dachau…
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A short train ride or couple of miles walk outside Kitzbühel is the Schwartzsee (“black lake”). It’s full of minerals…
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So here’s a couple of assorted photos of Kitzbühel town. It’s a ski resort in the Austrian Tyrol, about equidistant…
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In July I went to Kitzbühel in Austria for work. I was there to run a workshop in the local…
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Here’s some more photos from Germany. From Harth in Nordrhein-Westfalen to be more precise. It’s a small village in the…
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I spent most of August in Germany, teaching some school workshops and going to Documenta art fair along the way.…
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So I’m back in the UK. For good now. Most of this week has been taken up with house-hunting, arranging…
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I have been in Austria for a week and a half now for teaching work. I meant to update last…
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I’m in Brno in the Czech Republic for a week before starting work in Austria next week. The Czech Republic…
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My university library had a massive stack of printing industry annuals from the 1890s through to the 20s. I always…
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On the way from Niederösterreich to Vorarlberg I stopped off alone in Salzburg along the way. I had to change trains…
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While in Kirchberg-am-Wechsel we were given a tour of a disused church perched up on the mountainside. It has suffered…
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While in Kirchberg am Wechsel I also got to go on a tour of Hermannshöhle with another teacher. It’s a…
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Last Summer I spent a week working at the junior school in Kirchberg am Wechsel, a tiny mountain town on the…
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I spent a lot of last summer travelling up and down the Alps by train. Here are a couple of…
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We also went to the baroque St Nicholas’ church in Prague. I’m not at all religious (and it seems neither…
