Accidentally Austrian
A Minnesota meteorologist in Middle Europe on travel, language, and life abroad, plus tales from my debt collector days.
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Austrian Dialect: Hoiz (Wood, Forest) (opens the original)
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Graz, Austria's First-Place Second City, Encircled by Beauty (opens the original)
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(Still) Don't Know Much About Austria (opens the original)
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Central Europe on a Sprained Ankle (opens the original)
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The Last Conversation I Had with My Grandfather Was about Bitcoin (opens the original)
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Loss from AbroadIn July 2023, I briefly flew from Austria to Seattle to address pressing personal business. Much of my trip was wasted in dingy government buildings, or at the post office, dashing off registered letters. In between, I spent time with loved ones, preferably at various waterfront parks offering heavenly vistas of the Olympics or Cascades, Pagliacci pizza in hand.One afternoon, at my grandparents’ beautiful hillside house, which my architect grandfather himself designed in the 1960
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