This isn’t my first time feeding horses and mucking out stalls and picking cherries and eating loads of apricots on a farm in Austria. In the summers of my tenth and eleventh years, our family spent a summer on a farm in Austria, and I knew one day I would want to relive the experience.Continue reading “Eichbüchl”
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A Night Out
July 27 The full lunar eclipse happens very rarely, and apparently over Senning 250 years ago. Tonight, it will occur again, and so we plan to make a picnic and take some blankets and sit out on the horse field to enjoy the lunar eclipse. But first, it’s still morning and there’s work to beContinue reading “A Night Out”
Farm Days
The train back to Vienna is full – a group of Czech natives, I’m assuming based on the language, is at one end of the wagon playing cards, a couple of American girls are taking selfies of themselves and talking about fit bits, but all others are quiet, thank goodness, on their way somewhere. AndContinue reading “Farm Days”
Salzburg
July 15 Sunday morning I wake up at 4:30 in the morning by Michigan who is rummaging through her suitcase until she finally falls asleep; making a quick survey of the room (mother instincts?) I see that Argentina is fast asleep after her coming back to the dorms around midnight, taking a half hour toContinue reading “Salzburg”
An early evening and morning in Prague
I arrive in Prague off the 19:10 train and feel its closeness already: a green area of grass growing alongside the length of the station greets travelers right out of the one set of front doors (no multiple entry/exit doors which can lead a new comer into a puzzling maze of city streets), dotted withContinue reading “An early evening and morning in Prague”
Berchtesgaden
One of my must sees while I still have days on my Interrail pass is Salzburg and the the allure of Berchtesgaden, Koenigsee, Obersalzberg and the Kehlstein Haus (nicknamed the Eagle’s Nest). Having read so much historical literature of this retreat and underground bunker system of Hitler’s and his crew, I needed to see itContinue reading “Berchtesgaden”
To the Wachau
At lunch yesterday, Birgit suggested we make ein Ausflug – an outing – for Sunday, bringing up the idea of driving along the Donau in the Wachau region, the wine region, which starts at the village of Krems, an hour or so west of Vienna, and continues until Melk. After a full day ofContinue reading “To the Wachau”
An afternoon in Vienna and a day in the cornfield.
As I sit down to write, I notice a cricket is on the side of my desk, its antennas poking up and alerting me to its existence. It thinks it is camoflaged, as it has sought out the darkest surface in this otherwise light colored room. I may have brought it in with me fromContinue reading “An afternoon in Vienna and a day in the cornfield.”
Senning, Austria
July 1 I arrive in Vienna from Lausanne via Zurich at 18:30, a little apprehensive about meeting the family I’ll be spending a month with as a workawayer, but a little voice inside of me tells me it will be all right, and with confidence that comes from former travel experience, I find the rightContinue reading “Senning, Austria”
Lausanne, Switzerland
June 30 After a double espresso from my own supply of instant coffee – and landlady Irene’s special brioche bread called cuchaule with jam and honey – Yannis, Rudy and I take the metro down the hills of Lausanne to a connecting bus, and then from the bus walk to Lake Geneva and along itContinue reading “Lausanne, Switzerland”
