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Rapideum, or: DT and Football

This post features something in my adopted home city of Vienna. Recently I paid a visit to the “Rapideum”. That’s the name of the museum of the football club Rapid Vienna (official full name: Sportklub Rapid, hence the abbreviation SKR), originally a working-class club of western Vienna (Hütteldorf). I had read about this museum in a book about hidden gems in Vienna and when I learned that the museum doesn’t shy away from the darker aspects of the club’s history, I was keen to go. I wasn’t disappointed. Read on …

Of course, much of the museum

Spaç prison

This is the second blog post derived from my recent week-long trip to Albania (see the previous post about Tirana). During that week I had also booked a day excursion with a driver/guide to the former ruined Spaç prison.

Under the long communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, Spaç was one of dozens of political prisons and forced labour camps dotted all over the country. It was set up in such a remote location that the