Walking the walls

Walking the walls

So this is where the wall used to be, and this is basically one of the last bits of it still intact. 331 years ago there was a whole load of Ottoman soldiers trying to get to the other side of this wall. Roughly 150,000 marched from Istanbul to make a siege that I’m now writing a comedy about. In celebration of the glorious defense of Vienna after caning a schnitzel one night and tracing the steps and the places I’m writing about I sat here, had an extremely mediocre ice cream and wondered just what the hell it was like then.