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A good Saturday

16 Mar

For one thing, Vienna awoke today to bright blue skies – chilly still but cheerful. I was inspired to take two bags of books to the Christ Church shop (the thrift shop of the Anglican church in the 3rd district). There I found a good-as-new copy of Frank Tallis’s “Death and the Maiden” for EUR 2. This the fourth book I have read in this series set in Vienna at the time of Freud and uniting two friends, a Catholic police inspector and a Jewish doctor and psychoanalyst, in solving crimes. After taking care of several Saturday chores and errands, Mylo and headed to – where else? – the Vienna Woods where we caught the first whiff of “Baerlauch” (wild garlic) and enjoyed watching the ducks navigating between water and ice.

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It’s spring

7 Mar

I have just had my first ice cream cone of the season–chocolate and strawberry–at one of the best ice cream places in Vienna, Bortolotti’s at Schüttauplatz, in the 22nd district.  That’s special in Vienna because most of the smaller ice cream places close from October to March. (Some of them even turn into fur coat shops for that time.) It’s the family’s only chance to recover from a relentless summer season and it fits the Viennese idea that there is (still) a season for certain things. Well, I am old-fashioned and like that. It means one appreciates those things more. 🙂

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Seen today in Nussdorf

3 Mar

Just a week after our big snowstorm …

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You don’t know what you got till it’s gone …

28 Feb

… as Joni Mitchell reminded us in “Big Yellow Taxi”. Well, it works in the reverse, too–you don’t know what you don’t got until it comes back again (that just doesn’t scan as well).

This afternoon when I went out for a round with Mylo I was stunned by the beautiful blue sky and almost blinded by the sun. It was in that moment that I realized how gray our weather has been for weeks now. It turns out that this winter we have had the least sun since 1903. Not a statistic one really wants to live through if one has a choice as Vienna typically doesn’t get much sun in winter in the best of years.

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Cold in the Vienna Woods

26 Jan

Luckily, Mylo and I were dressed for it, unlike this gentlemen.

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Roof avalanche

22 Jan

All around Vienna you see these signs in winter.

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They always make me smile because “Dach” means “roof” and “Lawine” means “avalanche”. Seems like such a dramatic way of describing the snow that slides off the roof.

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Snow – update

17 Jan

I had an appointment near the Freyung this morning. This photo is from about 11.30 and it is still snowing now at almost 2 p.m.

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Snow

17 Jan

Mylo and I walked out into a pillow fight this morning, big downy flakes such as come about once a winter in Vienna. Wonderful!

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A winter walk in the Vienna Woods (where else? ;-))

12 Jan

 

 

 

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There was quite a bit of activity this afternoon in the Woods. People of all ages, moving at all speeds, with dogs, without dogs, with Nordic walking poles, without Nordic walking poles … but I only saw one person on a bike. Could be because the conditions were pretty hazardous. After at least a week of rain everything froze quite quickly and then came the dusting of snow that you can see, so you didn’t notice the ice underneath until it was too late!

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There are a few houses in that part of the Woods, but only few. This one always makes me think of my home country, New England.

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When the snow stopped, the light was gorgeous.

As you can see, more or less just a typical winter’s walk in the Vienna Woods.

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White Christmas?

25 Dec

Well, we didn’t make it, at least not downtown.

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Never mind. It still has a certain Viennese charm. (The focus on my camera works just fine, by the way. That is the common Viennese winter fog you see in the picture.)

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