Blogs from Vorarlberg, Austria, Europe

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Day two of the group trip began with a nice breakfast at our hotel. Breakfast here is certainly not like breakfast at home. At home, in a continental breakfast in a hotel, there is usually cereal, fruit, some kind of special bread or pastry, and not a lot else besides coffee, depending on the level of hotel one is staying at, of course. Here when one gets a hotel breakfast there are different kinds of bread, cheeses, and meats, plus fruit, juice, and coffee. I do not understand the fascination with salamis and bolognas for breakfast, but there is always ham, which is good too. We had a little time in between breakfast and when we would leave for the museum, so I used it to go to the cathedral in Rothenburg, St. Jakob’s Church, a ... read more

So last night was pretty interesting. But telling the story requires some explaining. My room is one of many in this house where they rent rooms out to ski instructors and local workers, BUT on the main floor there is a strip club... (which used to be a very tasteful, family-oriented restaurant), clearly the owners had a change of heart concerning their profession. Anyway, my room just happens to also be lucky enough to be next to the room where 'the girls' get ready for their performance. SOOO last night I was innocentely reading my book in bed and talking to friends online when outta no where i hear loud footsteps outside and then someone kept banging on my door trying to get in! So I was pretty bloody pissed and opened the door to find ... read more

Well only Lech was available to put, but im actually in Zürs am Alberg, which is a tiny town right next to Lech. So its about halfway through Winter break and its been pretty eventful actually. The first week was pretty damn boring, but then around New Years it picked up. New Years itself was just.. well not so great lol. It was pretty awkward. I went with Nina to the Alrberg house and hung out with the Eglers. I ended up at a table with the Egler boys and some Scottish people who decided to start snorting Icelandic alcohol up their nose... So it was interesting haha. After the firework show on the 1st of Jan Christian came over and yes yet again we had a make-out fest. But thats it, and its all just ... read more

So a quick background update - whilst I was bringing home the bread and butter and building my shrine of Nadz J - Nadia was gallivanting around Paris and Switzerland, finding toilets with infestations in Paris and making love to a special someone called Charlie (the snow man yar). On the 13th of December 2008 (not a Friday but a Saturday) I decided to hop on to a plane cause i felt sorry for nadz the loner. She was dying without me and i felt sorry for the loner munchkin. She was missing me and finding it hard without my tender loving. So i got on at Schiphol airport for my flight to Vienna. I was flying with skyeurope and Nadia was always on the top of my mind. The flight was 105euros and I was ... read more

Joint graduate school meeting in Kleinwalsertal Having looked here at trabelblog.org for an entry for this wonderful place and not finding one was quite surprising! Because this place really deserves to be seen. Therefore the intetion was to describe some of the highlights of the trip. Getting there The trip from Muenster by train has been a really lengthy one. Strarting at around 7:30 in the morning we arrived at Oberstdorf train station at about 3 or 4 in the afternoon! And this was still not it. We had to take a bus. Wandering around with camera It has started snowing the day before and went on the whole night. But the next day the sun came out and the whole landscape became amazingly crisp and clear. So the goal was to find a skiing lift ... read more