amazing, I was feeling down and unexcited. I already feel like starting the week tomorrow by taking a long walk, with my mask on. Thanks dear Eugene for your great contribution. Carlos - Brazil
"To walk around the city is to build stronger communities" - in Vienna? Really? Because all I see here when I walk around are the grumpy faces of people who mostly avoid all eye contact. Contrary to e.g. Toronto or London. Towards the beginning of the "long night of museums" a few years ago, I dared to ask strangers waiting in a really long queue whether they've seen other things already and whether the queues for those were this long as well. They looked at me in almost a startled manner, like "You can't just ask random people on the street things!". On the other hand, during the Nuit Blanche in Toronto, a group of people from Buffalo struck up a conversation with me and we ended up talking for about half an hour about health care and the education system among other things.
Thanks for your comment, NotThere. You are right that Vienna is not a city which immediately embraces you. But that is part of the complexity of living in a modern city. I did not say in the film that walking around will make you lots of local friends. But I am sure that more people strolling in a district helps to build a sense of community and belonging. If you walk the same space each day, for sure you will start to recognise familiar - and friendly - faces, and out of that you can develop new networks. I live on the Karmelitermarkt, and I hang out there each afternoon, and have spontaneously chatted with so many random and colourful characters. Please try it!
amazing, I was feeling down and unexcited. I already feel like starting the week tomorrow by taking a long walk, with my mask on. Thanks dear Eugene for your great contribution. Carlos - Brazil
This man was extreeeeeeemely nervous!!!!
Walking in Vienna is amazing. I love my city
Great work, great presence.
No aprendí nada pongalo en español si no para que no colocan
"To walk around the city is to build stronger communities" - in Vienna? Really? Because all I see here when I walk around are the grumpy faces of people who mostly avoid all eye contact. Contrary to e.g. Toronto or London.
Towards the beginning of the "long night of museums" a few years ago, I dared to ask strangers waiting in a really long queue whether they've seen other things already and whether the queues for those were this long as well. They looked at me in almost a startled manner, like "You can't just ask random people on the street things!".
On the other hand, during the Nuit Blanche in Toronto, a group of people from Buffalo struck up a conversation with me and we ended up talking for about half an hour about health care and the education system among other things.
Thanks for your comment, NotThere. You are right that Vienna is not a city which immediately embraces you. But that is part of the complexity of living in a modern city. I did not say in the film that walking around will make you lots of local friends. But I am sure that more people strolling in a district helps to build a sense of community and belonging. If you walk the same space each day, for sure you will start to recognise familiar - and friendly - faces, and out of that you can develop new networks. I live on the Karmelitermarkt, and I hang out there each afternoon, and have spontaneously chatted with so many random and colourful characters. Please try it!