Category: คิดเล่นๆ

I spend sometime in Vienna (roughly a year with separated 6 months each). I keep telling myself that I will be back there again one day.

During those time, I have stay and moving into a few places. The first place I ever stay was a newly build student dormitory. I am the first person to stay at the room. Everything look good, modernize place with mostly IKEA furniture. Newly install heating system.

The old one

However, during the 2019. I went back to the Vienna for around 6 months. This time I was not staying in the student dormitory anymore. I rent an apartment with around 70 sqm. in the downtown of Vienna through an online platform. I got a cheap price though. Below is the picture of that apartment.

Well, I told myself the first time I saw this building, “Look so plain and not so new”. The building was in the center of the downtown Vienna with a great access to public transport. However, as I walk in closer, I notice the big Lion sign in the front of building.

The sign said ” KLEIN WIEN 1914″. So I look up in the internet and found an information from an Austria website stated that….

WHA “Klein Wien”, Vienna 15, Tannhäuserplatz 3 / Hollochergasse 32-38 (with Friedrich Wohlmeyer)

It was build by the architecture name Wilhelm Wohlmeyer in 1913-1914. When I found out about this. I was shocked because the building is aged more than 100 Years old.

By walking to the stair made me experience the pre technology life. The stair was design to save the most of the space in the building. I learned that there was no baht room inside the unit. people need to come out. Moreover, there is no pipe for the water. it will be in the hallway. So people need to come out for water.

I just imagine that how the people in the past felt when they were living once in the very same building. Do they feel the warm of the same sun and the cold of the winter like me? Do they have so much worry and problem in life like me? It won’t matter now because they are now gone. Also, we, the living…. some day,

When I was staying there I was dreaming about a girl. She stand in front of the unit I was in. So I ask her. Why won’t you come in? She did not answer but instead standing and watch me for sometime.

I was not staying here for a long time. However, it was a quite good and satisfied experience.

Here is the things I like about Vienna. I will keep updating this post.

1. Great quality mineral water … and it’s FREE!

If you came to Vienna and have a conversation with someone who live here. You will absolutely been telling about the water of the Vienna. I was told that the water of Vienna come directly from the mountain without any need of water pump or any treatment station. The best part is it go directly to the tap in your kitchen! WOW I was drinking the best clean natural water from the tap! However, I decide to dig down on the internet to find more information. Turn out that they do build the water treatment plant near the spring water area. Those areas are well preserve to prevent the contamination of particles in the water. See the map for the flow of water.

Furthermore, There are a lot of “Trinkwasser” station around Vienna. Mostly in the tourist spot, park. The trinkwasser is the German word for “drinking water”. Yes. You can drink those water – for free.

2. Trust-able, Cheap Public Transportation.

Well, my hometown is Bangkok. It is the top 10 world ranking traffic jam city. I usually spent 2-3 hours on the road in my private car. It will take you more time for the public transport. The connection also very bad. Hence, it is like a paradise for me when I use the public transport in Vienna. It is mostly always on time! the sign at every bus, tram and metro will tell you how much time you need to wait in minutes.

if you are new here. There are a lot of mobile applications that will help you with the route planning. the basic one is Google Maps which working just fine. However, if you want to get more inside such as monitoring the time for all line, getting the report about malfunctioning elevator. you should use Quando – It will change to WienMobile soon. so if you can’t find it please use the second one.

The price for the public transport is also very cheap! For a yearly ticket you just pay as low as 1.2 EUR/day!