Archive for July, 2011

Austrian Landscapes

Lake Edge
Stodl
Cows on the Horizoncontinued…

Mike with Lemons

Mike with Lemons

Mike Sowden writes an excellent blog called Fevered Mutterings. He flew down from York, England to visit the temporarily relocated world headquarters of Nerd’s Eye View in Aigen, Austria.

While he was here, we visited the baroque Benedictine library at Admont, wandered the aggressively picturesque streets of Hallstatt, vanquished several servings of epic cake (with one battle nearly lost at the Zauner, a regal bakery in Bad Ischl), climbed a decent number of stairs in Graz, and perused some beautifully crafted local artifacts at Schloss Trautenfels.… continued…

Faking Hallstatt

SalzkammergutHallstatt is one of my favorite attractions in Austria. It’s about an hour’s drive from the husband’s home turf. We’ve made a trip there almost every time we’re in Austria and we always take visitors there. It’s shockingly pretty, sometimes it is hard to accept that a place can be real and be so pretty, but it is real indeed.

Humans have occupied this little village on the edge of the lake for thousands of years.… continued…