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Hello there,

i spent last weekend at the so-called "Meer der Wiener" (literally the ocean of the Viennese), i.e., at Lake Neusiedl. It's a quite shallow and relatively large lake close to Vienna, on the border of Austria and Hungary. I was there with a group of friends, camping directly at the lake. Good weather, nice swimming, lots of fun.

Only one drawback: mosquitos. The area with all the nature, water and reed is famous for having lots of mosquitos. And the last couple of weeks supported this by offering the perfect breeding weather for them little basterds. I took some insect repellent with me but the bastards seem to especially like my blood. Or at least they liked mine more than the blood of the people around me.
Monday morning i counted 19 mosquito bites just on the back of my right hand. So, i decided i really wanted some numbers here: i let a friend count the stitches on my back. She stopped at about 170, but that was far from all, so right now i have more than 200 mosquito bites on my back. Feet look also like i would have chickenpox, all red dots and so on. Funny except for a little bit - or quite some - itching.

I feel like if i go donate blood now there wouldn't be much left inside me :-P

Enjoy summer, people!

Cheers
CGA

Future train

Hello there,

look at this photo, taken on the 8th of July, 2009:


I was in a train in Germany. One of them double-deckers. We have the same kind of trains here in Austria. I was dead-tired and so a little confused when i saw the date displayed =)

My next thought was that the train system must be running on Windows Vista. Just from my personal experience - i've been working with it on my company laptop for a bit more than a year now. It seems that it doesn't like portable devices, or at least being disconnected from electricity for a while. Happens usually several times a week when booting up, it's confused and displays a weird date and time. Usually January 10th, 2006. Just after midnight. I guess that its birthday or something.
Awwwh, Windows.

Anyways, cool to travel with a train that's 20 years ahead of its time ;-)

Cheers.

Travel Work :-)

Hello there,

if you've been following this blog for a while you know that i've been travelling quite a lot with my last job in the petroleum industry. Well, since a bit more than a year i have a new job where i can use my brain again. Good fun. More and more interesting the more i get into it. Mmmh, heuristics.

Anyways, right now i am on my first business travel with my current job. And it's wonderful. I am participating in a conference in Bonn, Germany. Not just any conference, but "the biggest of its kind outside of the US" as i've been told. Some numbers:

• 2500 participants, three days
  
• 2000 talks
• 45 sessions in parallel

There's more, but well here's official information. What can i say, it's wonderful. More than two thousand people, all working in my field, i.e. Operations Research. Gives you quite a boost in motivation. So many interesting sessions, it's hard to pick which ones to attend. I already listened to a nobel prize laureate and a guy who wrote a graphic novel called Logicomix. The latter one also talked about sex and optimization there (don't ask, no idea).

My own talk was also an interesting experience. I had about 20 to 30 people in the auditory. More than expected, considering the fact that it was in the first session on Monday morning, even before the official opening session. And i learned afterwards that this was quite good. I've been to other talks of people way more clever and well-known than myself and they only talked in rooms where not more than 15 people fit in. I guess it's because i'm working in aiport operations. Lots of airport talks here, a lot of work going on.
Just a great feeling that so many people all over Europe and the world work in the same field. I even attended a stream where the chair was one of the guys who wrote the 'airport bible'. Prestigious. Love this event.

Some words about the cultural programme: if you know me well, you might have a hard time believing that i skipped the welcome dinner at a traditional German beergarden. But yes, i didn't go there. But i did go to the concert of classical music on the next day in the Beethovenhalle. Fancy. And i was at the conference dinner which took place on a big boat on the river Rhine.

Speaking of Beethoven: he was born here in Bonn. So they are very proud of him, and for good reason, i guess. Lots of stuff called Beethoven-something. Coming from Vienna i just had to think of what my music teacher told me in high-school: "A genius can be born in the smallest, most remote hicksville, but where she/he dies is far more interesting" since that is a question of choice, i mean, where they move. Guess what we have in Vienna =)

And some words about Germans: it's almost too cliche how much they do follow rules. Like, waiting for the pedestrians' traffic light to turn green. Even if there is no car near and it takes the light forever to switch to green. But well, that's a good thing, i guess.
Speaking about traffic lights: creeping me out. I mean, that it switches from green light to red without any warning. I think it's a particular Austrian thing that there is some green blinking before that. But i found myself quite confused in the middle of the street: you don't look at the traffic light for a moment while walking and suddenly it's red and you have no idea if you should run or not. Well, i got to used to living in Austria again, i guess ;-)
One more traffic thing: even Mercedes cabs stop to let pedestrians cross the street here. Never happens in Vienna. I even more or less signaled the car that i don't want to cross but still it stopped without complaining and waited till i was at the other side of the street. Very brave.

So much from my first conference, yippiiieee, love it!

Keep on working in jobs that you enjoy, everyone,

Cheers
CGA

In Oil we trust(ed)

You might remember that i go to work on bicylce and pass by an area with a lot of graffiti. There is one column that caught my interest last summer: it had a graffiti-fied oil platfrom on it. Given my background that was funny for me. Look:


The cool thing about this is that the artist seems to be a rather persistent person. I first saw it sometime last summer. Since then it has happened numerous times that someone sprayed something else over it. But it always came back. Looks like someone really wants to deliver a message here. Or maybe it's just the omnipotent oil-industry, leaving us a reminder of their power
*conspiracy, hello big brother*

By the way, if you think that oil has no more influence on your life these days, i recommend you to read the excellent book 'Oil: A Concise Guide to the Most Important Product on Earth' by Matthew Yeomans.

Speaking of graffiti:

As seen on one of the benches in front of the main entrance of MQ. I hope you can make out the two surveillance cameras in the drawing. Pretty funny, huh?

Feel sLOVEenia

Hey there,

guess where i've been last weekend:

Yupp, visiting friends in Maribor. A nice weekend, good fun. Pictures will follow on my picture page, this blog entry is just a short teaser ;-) i've been there on a 'cultural exchange'. Funnily enough we had a Polish friend with us and after she saw a poster of it we went into an exhibition of 'Polish icons of architecture'. That was the only museum thingie we saw from the inside on that weekend.
Europe, ain't it wonderful, all mixed through.

Oh and in case you're wondering, i've hardly been travelling at all during the last month. My last travel was a month ago, in the end of March, also to Slovenia. To the town of Osilnica, home of local hero Peter Klepec. And just at the Croatian border - since it's a Schengen-border now they were constructing some new border stations, yet unfinished. Funny to see in a place where you'd expect almost nobody crossing except some local residents.
Anyways, that thing at the end of March was a working meeting, organised by friends from Ljubljana. With people from all over Europe. Hehe.

Speaking of Croatia: do you know Cedevita? It's a pulver to put into water, pure chemistry, love it. Croatians are very fond of it, also telling everyone how healthy it is, with all those vitamins and so on. Whatever, i recently ran out of Cedevita. Had a 1.1 kg-bag since last year, a present from a friend. So now that i was in Slovenia i refilled my stock. Now look what i've got:


Yummy! And six different tastes: blood orange, regular orange (the classic taste), mandarin orange, lingonberry(!), lemon and grapefruit. They say it's the best hangover medicine. Well, i'll simply use it whenever i feel like having something purely artificial.

Cheers.

Thessaloniki

Long time, no blog. I know. And i still have to blog about some of my Russian adventures and so on. Anyways.

Right now i am in Thessaloniki. Wonderful Greek city. I am here to do an ATHENS course, ain't that ironic. It has been almost four years (!) since my last visit in Greece, far too long. And this is my first time in Thessaloniki. Quite a nice place, next to the sea, with a wonderful promenade at the harbour.

I arrived friday afternoon. Took a walk through the city to get a first impression - sunny weather, nice buildings, usual hectic traffic like in all bigger Greek cities. And then at night i met up with some Greek friends to get to now the nightlife. Hehe. Greeks party until the wee hours in the morning. Literally, until they closed all the clubs. And then some. It was also interesting to see that no matter how full the club is, you don't immediatly pay your drinks. Only when you leave you talk to the barkeeper again to pay. Different system to what i am used to.

Saturday was the beginning of the course i am attending. Official opening at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. And then the cultural programme started. On Saturday we took a guided tour through the city, from the citadel down to the harbour, through the exhibition area, around the "White Tower" and so on. And we visited the Archeological Museum. If you know me long enough, you will know that this was a highlight for me =)

Speaking of highlights, Sunday was even better: we went a bit out of the city with a rented bus. To Vergina and Dion. Now, i have been to some quite impressive places in Greece, but this area was still unvisited by me so far. In Vergina they have found the unrobbed and unopened tomb of Philippos the Second. Almost sure it is him, THE Philipp II., the father of Alexander the Great. Wow. Including bones and all (not on display, the bones, being under constant restauration).
2300 years waiting there. Rediscovered 1977. Fascinating. Truly fascinating.

Other than that, not too much to tell right now. I am enjoying the course - it is related to my PhD and the professors are quite good, plus sympathetic like i know Greek - and Greek lifestyle.

Well, there is aspects that i don't like too much. For example the fact that they are smoking everywhere. Literally everywhere, in public, in private, indoor, outdoor, in the cafeteria, in every restaurant... you get the picture. Let's all trust EU to change that all over Europe ;-)

I've been to a club with only Greek music. And the Greeks who took us there really loved it, knowing all the lyrics and singing and so on. Hehe. They also took us to a nice restaurant to eat fish and seafood. Best octopus i ever had. Yummy. And Ouzo, of course. The good one, from Lesvos.

Once again, on the danger of repeating myself:
Life is good!

Winter

Hey there,

if you have been following this blog for a while you might know that the last two years i managed to escape winter - one i spent in the KSA and the other one near Hong Kong. Both places have a climate that i prefer to winter with all the freezing and so on. I prefer summer, actually, being able to run around in a t-shirt during day and night and so on.

This year it has already been quite cold in Vienna, around new year and in the end of January. But well, to have the real winter feeling i did something else: i went to Russia! So here i am right now, blogging to you from a classic block building in Ekaterinburg. I took a direct flight to Moscow. Got onto the aeroexpress into the city and went down into the metro to meet up with a Russian friend. Oooh so many things to write about, so many impressions. In short, it is a really interesting country for me.
A bit longer: well, a lot of things would be as you expect them. The metro is really impressive, with the glorious stations. The first i got into already looked nice. I drove to another where i touched the statues of a dog for good luck. I got out of the metro and saw the Bolshoi theatre, walked on around the Kremlin (passing quite some Russians who ate ice-cream outside, bought at макдональдс). It was sunny and according to my friends it was about -15 degree C. Nice weather. We walked around the Kremlin and when we got up close to Red Square we ... went into a pubilc toilet there. Nothing much to tell but for the soldier at the entrance of the toilet who warmed himself up, leaning against a radiator. Unfortunately we could not go into Red Square on that day because some politics going on and it was locked by police. But i saw it from afar. We went on to eat some Russian food, driving around in the Lada car of a friend there, passing the Duma and some more places that so far i had only known from movies and TV. I have to say once again that it is all simply cool to see and interesting to experience. I drove through a lot more parts of Moscow that afternoon, passing at least four of the five(?) highway rings of Moscow, getting out of the car for making a picture in front of Lomonossov university (not too long because the two Spanish friends with me where freezing like hell) and our Russian friends insisted we buy some alcohol as welcome drinks to Russia together with some food to accompany it. Funnily enough the first supermarket we passed was a BILLA - yes, the Austrian supermarket chain...

Anyways, i spent a night in the airport and took a flight in the early morning to Ekaterinburg. -15 to -20 degC in daytime and a lot more snow. And so much fun. I"m attending a course at the university here and a lot more things. I have done sports indoor and outdoor(!) - Russia will organise olympic games in 2014 i think - i have tasted some vodka, yes, i did a city ralley, saw a castle made out of ice in the style of Chinese palaces, Lenin statues, i was at a live concert of a young Russian rock band, i attended a Hawaii party(!) and so on...

Now i have to go, i just cooked "Kaiserschmarrn" for my friends here for the international evening, yummy! More will follow, including pictures,

Cheers
CGA
-yippiiiiiiiieeeeeee!!!

Banksy no more

Maybe you've heard of Banksy, maybe not. Sure has made some nice pieces. I recently bought his book entitled 'Wall and Piece' and can highly recommend it - good fun to read, or look at.
All the more interesting to find one of his works in the streets of your own city (well, at least if you live outside of the UK, this is something special, i guess). Well, i haven't, but a friend of mine has found one a couple of months ago (thanks for the pic), look:


The police-smiley. I asked her where that was. Unfortunately i was too late:


They painted over it, well, most of it. And someone has scratched "BANKSY HATES YOU" into that :-)

...when hell freezes over

Hey there,

maybe you know the idiom "until hell freezes over". Hell, a rather mythological and hence non-existent place, can be a rather ridiculous topic to research since it simply does not exist, "it's all in your miiind!". But well, in the traditions around here it has mostly been described by whoever made it up as a hot place.
Having lived in the desert for a while i was quite reminded of that old idiom when i read the news yesterday: snow on the gulf!
See here or here .
A mountain in UAE, quite a rare thing as such, and covered in snow. And then it's so remote that it can only be reached by helicopter. And so the only people able to enjoy real snow there are some rich bastards. All the rest might get a chance in Ski Dubai but after growing up in Austria i find the idea of indoor skiing kind of pervert. Well, well, those are strange times...

Ballsaison!

Cheers
CGA

ps: if you haven't heard that story about hell freezing over by that student, go here and enjoy.

Things i'd like to own that i don't really need

A stormtrooper bobble-head and a cuddly plush Yoda. Ooooh. Really must-have items for me. But still, i did not buy them, so i resisted temptation. One more time.

In case you're wondering: they are on display at the fnac in Madrid. I've been to my favourite city one more time last week. At the end of my two-weeks-vacations-travelling. I'll blog more about it if i'll have the time. Was good fun, met a lot of great people. Thanks!

Cheers.

LEGOLAND

So, if you follow this blog you might know that i like to travel. But i still haven't made it to Danmark. But at least i managed to see LEGOLAND, yippiiiiieeee! Not the original one, but the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre here in Duisburg. And i gotta say, that was good fun. So much for achieving your childhood dreams. Having grown up playing LEGO that was definitely one of them. Jejeje. Some more pics:

Posing with LEGO batman.

LEGO Spielberg. Sat just in front of their 4D cinema.

Ooooh i'd definitely like one of those for my flat. Unfortunately those are custom-built and don't come nicely packed with instructions :-P

That funny fellow was part of the medieval-themed area/ride.

LEGO Indy. They also have LEGO Sean Connery keychains.

Creepy, huh? Was part of the jungle-themed area, sinpired by Indy II.

Picture's not really good, but that was a really cute scene. When i put myself into that LEGO lion and my head through its mouth a little girl saw me and came closer, laughing. Really sweet. After a bit of laughing she asked me "hehehe so you can't get out of there?" =)

Just outside of the entrance. That fellow with the slightly sick complexion had quite a summery outfit for the end of November. Didn't look too happy.

That's all, folks! Keep on travelling. And smiling.
Jejeje.

Bled

Last weekend i went to Slovenia again, visiting old and new friends. Hehe. It was wonderful, we stayed in a hut somewhere deep in the woods, supposedly on a plateau. My Slovenian friends told me that i was close to 'the most beautiful place in Slovenia' or at least the one that is the most-visited by tourists and i really should not leave without visiting it. And definitely i should not miss the famous 'Cremeschnitte' there - yes, they used the German word.
Anyways, that famous site is the city of Bled. It has a lake with an island in it and a castle. And is surrounded by mountains. I went there on sunday before going back home and i have to say they were right: it is a really, really beautiful place. Plus, i was so lucky to have more or less perfect weather. Blue sky and sunshine. Damn, i enjoyed. And since sharing is caring i have made some pictures for you (more can be found on my picture page, link on the right side of this blog).

Added: Oh, something i forgot: they have strange tracks in the lake. Looks like they build underwater train tracks into it - literally. There are at least five parallel tracks there, visible from above the water. We could not find out what purpose they might serve. Maybe guiding the rowing boats that bring tourists to the island. But quite weird. If anyone knows what those tracks are there for, please, enlighten me!

The mysterious duck in the foreground. The famous island in the background.

Walking up through the woods to the castle.

Me right next to the castle (castle being behind the camera).

On top of those mountains there is the border between Slovenia and Austria - thanks to Schengen it's not really a border anymore :-)

Old&new: a jet 'diving' into the castle.

Enjoying nature that took some time to grow - note the little mushrooms inside the green!

Fun in the sun =)

The castle as seen from the side of the lake.

Beautiful, huh?

I like that one, too.

Model of the city, lake, castle and surrounding mountains for blind people.

The island as seen from right next to the castle - we didn't pay the 7 Euros entree fee but still enjoyed the surrounding view, hehe. Speaking of Euros: it was my first time in Slovenia since they also have it. So convenient! Less than two months more and Slovakia will also join, hehe.

Me enjoying the famous 'Cremeschnitte'. And a hot chocolate. Mmmh.

Blogger seems to mess up the size of the pics a bit so i hope they're visible good enough. I know i had great vistas :-) Thanks to my Slovenian friends for a wonderful weekend, and:
See you next time!

The Land of Haribo

Hey there,

in the beginning of this year i came back to Europe. Looking for a job. My original idea was to go to Germany but some way or another i ended up in my old city. Also wonderful. Nonetheless, tomorrow is the third time this year that i will go to the land of Haribo. Yummy!

So just in case you're wondering about my whereabouts - which you might if you are reading this blog - i'll be in Germany for almost two weeks and then i'll drop by my beloved city once again. More on that later.

Cheers.

Flex ausziehen

Hey there.
Since July i go to work on bicycle. On the way i pass the Flex - and club that started as an illegal underground club in 1989 in an unused sidetrack/-tunnel of the Vienna metro line U4. If i remember correctly they became legal in 1995. Long time ago, when i was still young and completely unspoiled, haha. Anyways, that's the club in Vienna if you like clubs and alternative music. And they do have a lot of live concerts there. I'm myself in the process of adding more furniture to my flat, mind set on moving in and so on . Last week i passed the Flex in the morning and there were people moving furniture out of the side entry. Sofas and stuff, into a truck standing in front of it. Looked like someone was moving. But who lives inside a club? Confused me for a moment. Till i realized it must have been one of the trucks they always have, with stuff from the bands or whatever. Funny moment.

Way more interesting about passing the Flex every morning is the fact that the walls near it at the 'Donaukanal' are the most sprayed-on walls of Vienna. Every couple of days there is new graffiti at some places, so it's interesting to follow the development. Mainly because there is some quite creative stuff, at least fun to watch the outcomes.
Something not-so-totally-on top but it still surprised me:
Looks familiar? Looks like a portrait of the recently deceased Helmut Zilk - former mayor of Vienna and media person. And it was done right after his death, quite up-to-date art. I'll keep on watching while passing those walls on bike.

Other than that not much to write. Life is good. One more pic i took last weekend next to a restaurant just outside of Vienna:

Der CGA, die Sau, die.

Say that out loud a couple of times and think of where i've been working at the beginning of my last job. Ha-ha.

Cheers.

The Decline of Western Civilization

Ha! Always wanted to have a blog entry with that title :-) the motive for blogging it now is that last Wednesday i finally got to see the documentary of the same name. It's a bit hard to track down. Segments of it can be easily found on youtube, but unfortunately not the whole thing. Luckily now it was part of a retrospective at the Viennale. The Viennale, that is the annual international film festival of Vienna. Just started, so in case you are close, i can highly recommend it. But you might have trouble getting tickets, most of it is usually sold out pretty fast.

Anyways, enjoy!
Hooray, the sun is shining. Life is good.

Wake me up when September ends

Maybe you know this melancholic song from Green Day's 2004 album. It was quite in my head in the last two years:

• In 2006 i was sitting at home all summer with a splinted leg after my knee accident in that year. The end of September was when i started regaining my physical abilities and was able to travel again. So the song was in my head all summer.
• In 2007 i went back into the KSA in the end of June, knowing that i wouldn't get out of there for at least three months of continously working - so i was really looking forward to the moment when September ends. And in the end i even could leave the KSA for good.

Back to right here, right now. September 2008 is ending. But nothing special - i am back to having a life and good fun. Oh yeah. Had a good summer, working in my new job including weekends.

Life is good, keep enjoying.
Cheers.

They've gone mad with power

So i'm sitting here in my office and trying to work. And suddenly i hear music - really loud "Blasmusik", you know, brass instruments and all. Strange. As if they were playing right in front of my window. Well, they did:


Quite noisy. But strangely interesting. On that ugly building behind all those people there is a small commemorative plaque because the first Slovak National Council was founded there on the 15th and 16th of September 1848. So that was the reason for all the Slovak flag-waving of all the youngsters that are in the bottom right corner of the photo.
And then, about five or ten minutes later, they all disappeared almost as fast as they got there. Guess they would've stayed longer if the weather was nicer these days.

Speaking of unexpected noise at work: in the end of the last week the church around the corner here suddenly started to ring all its bells and did not want to stop. For quite a while. Dunno why. I'm not into religion. If you are still looking for one, try this or that.

Not much news otherwise. It got annoyingly cold last sunday and it's been raining permanently since monday. Quiero irme a Lesbos inmediamente...

Alternative title for this blog entry: Brassed off =)

My little green friend

Darth Sidious: I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend.

Indeed, i have waited a long time for this: to have my own flat with my own balcony. And so it happened that i had this little green visitor. Seemed kind of confused, it took him a while to get off the balcony again. But he managed. No idea if he then fell down four floors. But it seemed he could fly so i guess he's doing fine. If he actually is a he.
Other than that i enjoyed some culture last weekend. Like this:
If you are a German speaker and have some people around you, please do me the favour and read this text out aloud right now :-)
It's one of the paintings in MuMoK's current exhibition "Bad painting, good art". There were far better and more impressive ones. But not for reading them out aloud. I also saw some other stuff like this or that and might blog about it later.

So long,

Cheers
CGA

Livin' here

If you have read this blog for a while, you know that i really like going to the cinema and i don't take it for granted that i can simply go to the movies. So anyways, since this is kind of a diary blog, a couple of words of living in my old home city again. I really liked the first part when it was released in 2005 so i eagerly awaited its sequel. It has become common practice to release blockbusters on the same day worldwide since Episode II and the LotR trilogy. But for some unknown reason the 'clever guys' somewhere up there in the movie industry decided to not do that and delayed The Dark Knight for a month in German-speaking countries. Well, they never acted logically or anything. Was quite hard to not read anything about the movie that whole month and i was really tempted to go watch it when i was in Belgium in the first week of August - but in the end i didn't (lots of other things to do there, plus i don't really like subtitles in two different languages...). Blablabla long story short: i finally got to see it here in Vienna and quite liked it. Here's a shot from inside the cinema:

I saw that 'classic look'-Joker PEZ dispenser and just had to buy it =)

Other than that, about living here: last weekend i did a nice trip to the Alps, to be more precise to the Schneeberg which is a mountain quite close to Vienna. I stayed overnight at this hut which has a big rock next to it. One can climb up that rock and see the beautiful landscape all around. I sat up there watching a gorgeous sunset. If it wasn't for some airplanes above your head you could sit there and think you're the only person in the world, nobody else in your view. Great. Take a look at this picture i took:

Marvellous, innit?

Cheers
CGA

Villacher Kirchtag

Hello there,

so, what have i been up to? In the beginning of August i took my first week of vacations - in my new job. To start i went to the south of Austria. Since i'm now back to living in my old home country i thought i might as well enjoy some of the local culture here. So i did what i had in mind since a couple of years ago: i went to the Villacher Kirchtag. Austria's biggest "traditional festival". So, lots of drunk people in traditional clothes running around an area full of fun fair stuff. Blablabla i'll show you some pictures.

Mmmh, beer.
Since i started to talk about food: out of the belly of this giant corn man you could get exactly that - sweet corn. With different sauces. Quite allright.
Biiig frying pan. Conker would've loved it.
Revolving chicken and Spanferkel. Yummy!
Carinthian Reinling. A traditional cake, here in its cute little form, so one cake per person. On Kirchtag, this goes with the following:
This traditional "Kirchtagssuppe" is a little sour. And made with five different types of meat. Tasty as well. So much for the food, now on to entertainment.
I was told that this is the "most famoust cover band" of Carinthia. How impressive. People there liked it, nice atmosphere. One of their own songs consists only of the following line: "Allee, Allee, eine Straße, viele Bäume, ja das ist eine Allee". Crowds went wild, i preferred it when they played songs from other bands. Whatever.
The Hoff was there! Looked a bit sick, though, with that green-yellowy face.
More 80ies: those ones actually made funny movies.
I don't have any pics of the small roller coasters, but here's one of those stands where you could 'win' - you had to buy a big amounts of 'lottery tickets' and assemble some words with the letters on it or something similar. Guess it's way cheaper to get a plush animal by buying it in a toy story but 'less of an experience'...
And here's two little guys who won a big blue playboy bunny logo. Whatever they shall do with that.
On sunday there was a parade with lots of people dressed up funny. The dancing groups were more fun, though, than these fake army people.
Here in the back you can see the biggest "Villacher Kirchtag"-poster i could find this year.
Not really related to the Kirchtag, except for the fact that i ate this in Villach at the end of the Kirchtag. Mmmmh. Nice ice-cream spaghetti. Always fascinates me. Plus, they taste yummy!

So that's that then. Now i'm a little hungry, guess i'll go for lunch.

Cheers.