TBEX, One Week After

I feel fairly certain that the reason I sit (somewhat unhappily due to a nasty bout of flu) in this lovely hotel is because I attended TBEX last year. In the lobby of the cramped New York hall where TBEX 10 took place, I met a delightful young woman, Teresa Faudon,  from the Austria Tourism …


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Austria Haiku

“We would have sent you home,” said Teresa, our hostess. “It was freezing up there, there was new snow. You made the right choice to stay in bed.” It was a painful choice, though, one wrapped in self pity and despair. I had a window of relief from whatever flu I’ve picked up, just enough …


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Piburg See, Dusk, Tirol

I’m on a sponsored trip with Austria Tourism. I’ve not seen much, as I’ve been sick, but I did enjoy the first evening out at Piburg, a tiny village in the Otztal.

Antibiotics and Hot Love

This is not, I can assure you, how I’d intended to reacquaint myself with Austria. I did not want to take breakfast in my room, I did not want to hand over my credit card to pay for a pile of medication, I did not want to miss the field trip to the high meadows. …


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