Showing posts with label recreation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recreation. Show all posts
Monday, July 19, 2010
Kahlenberg > Nußdorf
Due to a combination of the wonderful cooler weather-change (clouds and drizzle, yeah!) and a growing impatience of getting baby out (4 days overdue is not uncommon, but we got 6 more days before they are going to induce labor, and I reeally prefer things to start naturally..) we went for a long walk yesterday from Kahlenberg down to Nußdorf. While it didn't spark contractions or the like, it felt so good to be outdoors and take in the scenery and cool fresh air after the past weeks' heat wave.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Baby, It's Cold Outside
I'm not really the most frequent blogger at the moment, which I appologize. School has been a little crazy lately, but yesterday I finished the last lecture before Christmas (the professor brought snacks, soft drinks and a bottle of VODKA to celebrate! Haven't experienced that before.. ) So now I have slowed down a bit (there are still a couple of papers I should work on), and I enjoooy having a little more time to do christmas related activities: Today I'm baking and I finished a sewing project with a couple of christmas girls I started earlier in the month.
Temperatures has dropped to below zero and turned puddles into ice. It snowed over the weekend. It's perfect for the season and the Christmas mood around here.
We are heading off to Iceland on Monday, and are very excited to spent two relaxed weeks in good company up north.
Temperatures has dropped to below zero and turned puddles into ice. It snowed over the weekend. It's perfect for the season and the Christmas mood around here.
We are heading off to Iceland on Monday, and are very excited to spent two relaxed weeks in good company up north.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Dosados in Vienna
Alright, so this I got to share with you.
When living in the US I developed a strange fascination for country music and the whole culture surrounding it. Actually this might seem odd considering the fact that we stayed in a bustling metropol like LA and not Nashville or the like. Anyhow, we would drive to these country themed clubs outside of LA, where they were serving cheese burgers and Budweisers while big crowds wearing cowboy boots, cowboy hats and fringe leather jackets were line dancing. It was an amazing insight into a culture that affirmed some of the stereotypical images one (read: I) had about Americans. And the music somehow slowly growed on me. We would come across it when roadtripping and flipping through the radio stations. Also we once attended a party for international students at USC with square dance, which was so much fun.
After arriving to Vienna I knew I had to sign up for some kind of activities to meet people and to do something FUN. I remembered my friend Christina back in Copenhagen, who joined a line dance-class and always talked vividly about it. So after considering other activities, I thought, oh what the heck, it's time to give it a try. And so I signed up for a linedance/square dance course and started about a month ago. Every Thursday night I show up to Kopetsky's Tanzschule, where I'm joined by women, who are about twice my age and one guy (who by the way is always wearing rolled up jeans, tight and very shiny cowboy boots and a toupe..). When not dancing the women are smoking cigarets - and lots of them - in the lobby. The teacher or rather the caller is a man in his 60s wearing a cowboy hat, who make the ladies giggle. I don't understand his jokes in German... He is teaching us to dance line dance to this song. Now when I listen to it, I can't even understand how it's possible to dance to it. It's SO slow!! But somehow it works out.
When dancing we can look across the street into the building on the other side, where a pilates institute is located. There we can see young women sliding elegantly back and forth.
And then I'm thinking: what am I doing here with all these chain-smoking ladies and a man with a toupe, dancing something I remotely connect with line dance? I do spend a great deal of time when I'm there those Thursday nights laughing inside myself of the whole situation. If anything I guess I could have told myself that a Wiener walzer class might be more appropriate in Vienna.
Now check out this video for the world's longest line dance. Yehaaaw!
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When living in the US I developed a strange fascination for country music and the whole culture surrounding it. Actually this might seem odd considering the fact that we stayed in a bustling metropol like LA and not Nashville or the like. Anyhow, we would drive to these country themed clubs outside of LA, where they were serving cheese burgers and Budweisers while big crowds wearing cowboy boots, cowboy hats and fringe leather jackets were line dancing. It was an amazing insight into a culture that affirmed some of the stereotypical images one (read: I) had about Americans. And the music somehow slowly growed on me. We would come across it when roadtripping and flipping through the radio stations. Also we once attended a party for international students at USC with square dance, which was so much fun.
After arriving to Vienna I knew I had to sign up for some kind of activities to meet people and to do something FUN. I remembered my friend Christina back in Copenhagen, who joined a line dance-class and always talked vividly about it. So after considering other activities, I thought, oh what the heck, it's time to give it a try. And so I signed up for a linedance/square dance course and started about a month ago. Every Thursday night I show up to Kopetsky's Tanzschule, where I'm joined by women, who are about twice my age and one guy (who by the way is always wearing rolled up jeans, tight and very shiny cowboy boots and a toupe..). When not dancing the women are smoking cigarets - and lots of them - in the lobby. The teacher or rather the caller is a man in his 60s wearing a cowboy hat, who make the ladies giggle. I don't understand his jokes in German... He is teaching us to dance line dance to this song. Now when I listen to it, I can't even understand how it's possible to dance to it. It's SO slow!! But somehow it works out.
When dancing we can look across the street into the building on the other side, where a pilates institute is located. There we can see young women sliding elegantly back and forth.
And then I'm thinking: what am I doing here with all these chain-smoking ladies and a man with a toupe, dancing something I remotely connect with line dance? I do spend a great deal of time when I'm there those Thursday nights laughing inside myself of the whole situation. If anything I guess I could have told myself that a Wiener walzer class might be more appropriate in Vienna.
Now check out this video for the world's longest line dance. Yehaaaw!
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wiener Weinwandertag
Once a year the city of Vienna organize a day of wine tasting throughout the different vineyards in the outskirts of the city. We joined an English speaking hiking group for a 10 km (app. 6mi) walk through parts of the hilly wine districts. It turned out to be gorgeous day with lots of sun, enjoyable company and stunning views.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Kahlenberg
Weather is still sunny and warm in Vienna, but fall is definitely in the air. The mornings are colder and the trees are changing color. It's oh so pretty, and I'm excited to be back in a climate with four different seasons. Last Sunday we took our bikes and headed for the top of the Kahlenberg mountain, which is just outside of Vienna. It's was a steep but beautiful ride through the Vienna forest and the wine fields. After catching our breath and enjoying the view from the top, we turned around and made a stop on the way down again in Grenzing, where had a glass of the local Sturm, which is currently in season. Prost!
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Monday, September 14, 2009
With Lola in the Park
Meet Lola. She is the incredibly cute and ADHD-like dog with extensive amounts of energy that can play fetch for hours and hours. We know her from Copenhagen, where Ines, her owner, was working at Bjarnis institute. Lola and Ines are living in Vienna now, and we spent Saturday afternoon hanging out in the park, playing fetch - of course, drinking the newly harvested wine Sturm and practiced wire walking with some of Ines' friends. Wire walking (I'm not using the proper term, but I don't remember what it's called...) has apparently become very popular in Austria, and hence you see people pulling up strings between trees in parks to practice their routines. It looks very easy, but it's so damn hard!
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Kurier
I was in the Austrian newspaper last week. They were doing an article on how public parks are used in Vienna, and I was again hanging out in a hammock with a book after class :)
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Hanging Around
After the German class ended yesterday afternoon I decided to walk to a nearby Asian supermarket. Still not knowing that part of town too well I ended up going in the wrong direction, but what a luck because I ended up in a park full of public hammocks! How neat is that? I simply couldn't resist and spent half an hour swaying in the shade listening to a podcast with Anders Lund Madsen & Anders Breinholt (Danish radio) and figured Vienna isn't that bad after all.
Tonight Jórunn & Baldur from Iceland are arriving, so the next couple of days should be full of sightseeing.
Bis bald.
Tonight Jórunn & Baldur from Iceland are arriving, so the next couple of days should be full of sightseeing.
Bis bald.
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