Blue Danube

[porphyry]

Since this is evidently what the valley of the Danube looks like just a short distance above Vienna, why on earth do our Viennese readers so often talk of vacationing anywhere else? Or is it possible to become bored with seeing a 200 meter waterfall?

Comments

[benicek.livejournal.com]

My daughter was mesmerised by that from the moment the translucent faerie appeared. She waved goodbye to them at the end.

Last time I saw the Danube it was a concrete lined trough with teenagers doing BMX stunts under the road bridges.

I can't imagine why Londoners believe themselves to be living in a filthy, crime-ridden nightmare. Haven't they seen Mary Poppins?

[leopold-paula-b.livejournal.com]

The clip reminded me again of Offenbach's allusion to the Blue Danube waltz in Belle Lurette ("Entre nous" CD I. 16).

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

It has a similar effect here.

Is London crime-ridden? I wonder how the statistics comapare to large American cites, but am too lazy to look it up.