Everyday Adventures

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Walked to an off site meeting near the office today, going through Jaurèsgasse. Been a while since I've been near the German embassy (passports are handled at a separate location). The old embassy was an ugly example of "Bonner Barock", a style emblematic for many public buildings erected in the 60s-80s in West Germany.



The new one under construction is an improvement, if only slightly (and much larger):



 

Also on Jaurèsgasse (which is like 200 meters long): Iranian Embassy, British Embassy, Russian Orthodox Church, Anglican Church, Russian Embassy ... on the way back I cut through a side alley - Chinese Embassy.

There's plenty embassies around Vienna, and many in this general area, but never realized so many "big ones" so close together. The Syrian embassy across the street is "only" two floors of a building, with other businesses located there. Or when I worked my first student job walking up the stairs of a residential building to the company office and, interspersed between family names on doors, "Embassy of the Republic of Kyrgizstan"

For the history nerds: there's an intersection of Jaurèsgasse and Metternichgasse, so you can meet someone on the corner of Jaurès and Metternich.