Universität zu Wien
*Aural recording of the rest not included, but the text is given anyway, so beautiful and meaningful to those who know Vienna. I studied at the Universität zu Wien in 1953-54 as a Fulbright scholar—tuition, travel, living allowance for me but not for my dependents, so it was a drain on our meager resources but one of the finest experiences of our lives.
Johnny and Jeannie loved Vienna. We liked to push them in a stroller all the way around the Ring (a broad avenue that rings almost all of the city, built on the site of the old wall which after centuries of existence as protection against the infidel Turks and others was finally torn down) as well as to Schönbrunn Palace, the Stadt Garten, etc. It was a thrill for them and us to take a ride on the Riesenrad (a giant ferris wheel with cars the size of small box cars). At the top of the circuit the border is so close it was possible to see into Hungary (formerly part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, which also included the northern part of Italy as far south as Milan and beyond).
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