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New day – new topic to write about. This is the 17th day of the Bloganuary challenge from WordPress. Unfortunately, I have “fallen a bit out” from this challenge as I could not pull myself together after a massive missile attack on Ukraine by russians. But I am back.

I cannot identify the happiest day in my life. However, I remember some happy days. I will tell you about the one that came to my mind first. 

It was May 9 years ago. My husband and his sister’s family went to Hungary (Budapest) for a vacation. 

I had to learn Hungarian as almost no one understood English. When I asked people: “should I turn left or right?” They would reply: “yes.” It drove me crazy. Language and being understood are essential to me. 

One day, my husband suggested going to Vienna for one day. I loved that idea as I could speak German and understand everything. It was my 1st trip to Vienna. 

We parked at Simmering and decided to take a metro. I was thrilled as I understood all the signs, ads, posters … Everything! 

I could finally breathe out my language anxiety.

I could finally feel understood. 

I could finally understand others. 

Back then, it was not as popular to take millions of pictures and videos as it is now. So I took a couple of shots. Now, I do not have my Hard Drive with me to post some pictures from that day. But I found 4 pictures that I posted on Facebook. 

This is a picture of a poster (can’t remember what they were advertising) at Simmering. 

We went to a famous cafe Landtmann, founded in 1873. ¨Café Landtmann was a meeting place for many of Austria’s leading industrialists, politicians, thinkers, and artists. It was the preferred coffeehouse of Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Peter Altenberg, Felix Salten, and Emmerich Kálmán.¨ (Wikipedia)

Then we went to Stephansplatz. Look at my happy face 🙂 

It was a good day in Vienna. I did not want to go back to Budapest. Since then, I’ve been to Vienna dozens of times, and it is one of my favorite places!