Sunday, October 16, 2005

Feb 4th 1939

Sleep late. Eat breakfast, write and generally settle in. After lunch am taken by Dr. Schimak to see a bit of Wien.

  • i. A wide-spread out city, wide streets and large well built houses
  • ii. Poverty and primitiveness still in existence.
  • iii. Beggars.
  • iv. Not the smart, gay Wien of old.
  • v. Very few people about.
General Impression Town, people, surrounding; outstanding buildings.

The University, Ice Rink.
Professor Trojan's evening - Faschingszug (edit: "Carnival course"?) - picture.

(edit - my grandmother made a note at the foot of this part, saying "The diary seems to peter out somewhat at this point - I will have to resort to memorising and hope for the best." There are no other pages from this part of her visit, and she did not add to the typed page from this point on. What will follow are diary entries that never made it to her second draft.)

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