The Nice Thing About Strangers

Creative Non-Fiction Short Stories. :) Travel, Oldsters, Love, and Compassion.

But You Can Drive Something Foreign…

For the very notion of homeland, with all its emotional power, is bound up with the relative brevity of our life, which allows us too little time to become attached to some other country, to other countries, to other languages.

-Milan Kundera. Ignorance.

Vienna, Austria, Wien, vespa, mini

The Vespa and the Mini in Vienna.

4 comments on “But You Can Drive Something Foreign…

  1. anglophiletoad
    April 2, 2013

    I want that car…

    • I bet you could make one from a cardboard box. You might get more legroom. 🙂

      • anglophiletoad
        April 3, 2013

        Not to mention reinforcement…

      • A Mini almost hit me once in Vienna. Let’s just say, the driver looked more terrified than I did! Beware the American Quads! 😀

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