Blog goes punk!

Business took me to Vienna on Friday and friends (and family of course) made me go to Linz again this weekend. And there was a special event… for the first time I made it to a concert of the legendary German punk band “Die Ärzte”! (Link to english Wikipedia, I am sure that all German readers of this blog know who these three guys are!) They started out back in 1982 (!) and are still able to play a 2,5 hrs rock show – my respect!

Even though there was some rain at the beginning, we had fun (see Birgit and Maria in the center of the picture) while others did not (see all other people around…)!

But as the concert began, the sky cleared up…

…and later we got rocked!

For everyone who wants to have a full audiovisual impression: This is one of their all time greatest songs, played at “Rock am Ring” !!

Back to BLQ

As I am writing this, I am sitting at Vienna Airport waiting for my flight to Bologna Airport (code: BLQ). My routing has been changed from a Frankfurt connection to a direct flight – a delay on the VIE-FRA service could have stopped me at Frankfurt Airport and Lufthansa/Austrian obviously wanted to make sure they get rid of me tonight…

So now I have two more hours to boarding – the first one I have spent watching the Austrian triumph in ski jumping and sampling the business lounge food. Time enough for a little report on christmas holiday events.

The first days I spent in Vienna meeting friends, catching up with the latest events at my firm and of course christmas shopping. On I went to Linz to spend the Christmas days with my parents and family. Despite all wonderful food and cookies it seems I did not put on any weight.  Speaking about Linz – my hometown is European Cultural Capital in 2009 together with Vilnius in Lithuania. (Click for Link)

Linz 09 - European Cultural Capital

After that followed three great days of skiing in the Schladming region. Weather was marvellous!

Planai panorama

New year’s eve I celebrated with friends and friends of friends in a beautiful country house in the alpine lake region of Upper Austria. We had two funny, snowy and cloudy days (both in the nature and in our heads…) -  thank you again Ina and Martin!

Then back to Linz to meet more friends and to go for another day of skiing to Hinterstoder. Again clear but icy weather which decorated trees with a pretty ice cover.

Hinterstoder winter landscape

And the tour ended with one and a half day in Vienna that I spent mainly indoors in cafés and bars to avoid the frosty winter city…

So here I am, another hour and half to go until boarding, but I’ll think of something to do! Maybe work on my online skiing skills at the ski challenge…

Ski Challenge!

Blueberry statt Blackberry!

Gastronomische Sensation in Linz!! Lange erwartet, endlich eröffnet: Nun hat Linz ein Top Atelier{Cafe} !

Blueberry!

Unbedingt hinschauen, wenn in der Nähe – und in Linz ist man ja, weil nicht so groß, praktisch immer in der Nähe…! (Click me!!!)