My wife, son and I spent two and a half weeks of July in Central Europe, visiting five countries, with the most time in Austria, where my son and I became dual citizens on July 18th. A few hours after receiving our documents, accompanied by my Paris-based sister in an office of Vienna’s provincial government, we saw a performance of Don Giovanni outside the Upper Belvedere, a palace built by Prince Eugen of Savoy, a military genius with a taste for the ornate. The conductor came out beforehand and spoke in German and English... Читать дальше...