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    • Vienna – An Abysmal Beauty
    • The Accidental Wiener
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    • The Six Billion Euro Man
    • Papers, please!
    • Papers, please! – The Sequel
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    • Walking – Part 3: The Salamander
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    • Der Elephant in Raum
    • Build It and They Will Come
    • Keep Calm and Have a G’spritzer
    • Red Vienna (Dad)
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    • United States of Europe
    • Rivers and Streams
    • Rivers and Streams – Part 2
    • Rivers and Streams – Part 3
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    • Get Christmas Done
    • The Barratt Vienna Awards 2019
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    • Men Plan and God Laughs.
    • Get a Grippe
    • Liesing Lockdown
    • A Walk on the Southside
    • Auf Regen folgt Sonnenschein
    • Ghost Town
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    • Barking up the Wrong Tree
    • Still Barking up the Wrong Tree
    • Read the Papers, Read the Papers
    • The More Than Five Minute Vienna Journal
  • 2021
    • Road To Nowhere
    • Callsign Wiener
    • Highway To Heimwerker Hell
    • Back to the Future
    • Float Like A Wiener, Sting Like A Scorpion
    • Hopeless, But Not Serious
    • 30 Is The Magic Number
    • Build Back Besser
    • City Trail 12
    • I Shot The Sheriff
    • A Year of Living Cautiously (“The Bazzas” 2021)
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  • 2023
    • An Old Friend Returns
    • Vogel im Kopf
    • Vogel im Kopf 2 (Birds in the Burbs)
    • Even Vienna Changes
  • 2024
    • A Dispatch From The No 1. City
  • 2025
    • Red Bull Graveyard (R.I.P.)

Up The Danube Without A Paddle. Years and Years In The Number One City.

One man's view of what it is really like to live in the home of classical music, where social democracy is king, people still greet you as you walk into shops, and where you can witness some of the worst driving in western Europe.

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January 1, 2025May 20, 2026rjbvienna2 Comments

Disclaimer: RJ Barratt still bears no resemblance to the picture above. Unless he has been drinking schnapps in the Black Camel (c) 2026

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