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Rain streaks the train windows, the walks are wet in the furniture salons where the train stops. Eurail pass turned out not to be good on priv RR which the Como one is. The boat with pranzo (3600) did not leave for an hr. I bought a free circulation one for 1500 down now on the Dalia watching people on street with umbrellas. This is the hazard of travel: never the right clothes, the right season but always hoping nothing will change from that one perfect time. 

[[top margin]] Vienna [[/top margin]]

Travel to me is the shock & pressure of the new, the eagerness to establish my postman's route. ([[?]] to Cathedral to coffee shop to Gerben [[Graben]] to sit & look at St Peters at the pestilence column then to Han's shop, down Kärtnerstr, the [[strikethrough]] trolley [[/strikethrough]] bus to Josef Kai - or in other words, stability to return to. Never to be without a thread to guide me 

Lago di Como - a white house with Gothic dets projected out into the lake, the heavy stone retaining walls covered with moss or Lichens, the rectang villas with long cupped roofs

Transcription Notes:
Kartnerstrasse and Graben -these two wide pedestrian streets, flanked by elegant facades and joined at the strikingly modern Haas House opposite from Stephansdom, form the commercial arteries of Vienna’s first district. This is the city’s most exclusive shopping area