How Renowned Poets and Politicians Spend Afternoons in Austria

Here is a renowned essayist, old, white haired, long face, mustache above his mouth, a full-blooded Austrian, and a inspiring writer. He is the renowned Alfred Polgar who once said: "Too often man handles life as he does the detrimental weather, he whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop." Indeed, this quote is a best representation of a poet's, essayist's, politician's, and all Austrian denizen's regular lifestyle.

As an observer, I don't often see any Austrian people crowding in a rowdy street; instead, they spend their afternoon in a nearby cafe where they read newspapers and relax themselves with the fragrance of coffee and the taste of a peaceful afternoon. Add the preferred Austrian dessert, one piece of saccharine apple Strudel and a Sachertorte, one cup of pondering, and a sip of tete-ta-tete. Having this, you will surely forget the cruelty and violence of the fed up world while you gently lay your back in a cozy Cafe chair and cross your legs to feel the encompassment of an Austrian afternoon.

Coffee shops in Austria have reached above the lines of just a uncomplicated place to gulp coffee. It has become a part of the impressive Austrian lifestyle and is now considered as a day-to-day philosophy of an Austrian life. A coffee shop is a sanctuary where people meet other enthusiastic people and exchange assorted ideas. This is the best place where women go after shopping to review their drawn out shopping list if they have forgotten something. Politicians have this place as their plain venue -- ordinary means no politics involved just unmixed comments and thoughts -- to talk about the Austrian government and why Austrian population grows. Poets, essayists, writers tap their bewitching sleeping muse with the fragrance of coffee poking their olfactory glands and it serves as their creativity booster. This is how people spend a inactive afternoon or a gentle morning or anytime in the seemingly mystical place of Austria.