The awesome Old Empire Vienna epitomises the elegance of Eastern Europe, and the city has a fine heritage of food from Hungarian goulash to Turkish coffee. Okay, it's time to be Eurocentric again. One of these days it might be cool again, and I'll be a prophet. You see, Europe is a pretty fine place. Unlike in Africa, politicians can punch voters and probably still get elected without the UN debating it.
Trains run on time and everything works.
It's a bit boring, but they have galleries and gardens and lots of grand things. They have fewer political plots, but that's why it's boring. It is so boring that most of the best Europeans emigrated, to the brave new world. God aren't we brave. Apologies to all the black readers, but you guys will just have to be tolerant here, I'm having a feel-good moment.