title: Flight From Vienna
author: Peter R Auer
description: First trained as a historian, Peter Auer has spent half a century as a teacher and teacher educator working mainly in Australia, the Middle East, the United States and Africa. In addition to writing, Peter spends his time skiing, playing tennis, taking photographs, cooking and travelling. He currently lives in Washington DC with his wife Carolyn and Jack Russell Charlie for the benefits this city provides intellectually and culturally.
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  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
  JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
  
  
  ( _Kept in shorthand._ ) 3 _May. Bistritz._ —Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st
  May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but
  train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse
  which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the
  streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and
  would start as near the 1
  
  
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  BRAM STOKER
  
  
  correct time as possible. The impression I had was that we were leaving the
  West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the
  Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions
  of Turkish rule.
  
  
  We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I
  stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper,
  a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very 