Around 7 pm on July 4th — or maybe it was later, it’s hard to know for sure, it gets dark quite late in our alpine town — there was a blast of fireworks and firecrackers. It didn’t last long, 15 minutes, maybe 20. Then it was all over and I went back to reading …
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 …
Hallstatt 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, …
Overgrown grave marker on the churchyard walls in Fernitz, Austria.
I was very much an “auslander” when I lived in Austria. An outlander. I have fine in-laws who are kind and generous, but I did not have friends here, and I spent huge amounts of time alone. During that time, I covered sections of the Enns Valley on foot, repeatedly. Outlander is a funny word …