“Silvester” has become a regular part of my vocabulary since I’ve lived in Europe, but someone reminded me recently that most of my mates back home would think of the cat who stalks Tweety-bird before realising it refers to a New Year’s Eve celebration. Whatever you want to call it, the …
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Bathing at Bad Blumau
My obsession with Hundertwasser is something I’ve documented before – but this time it was in fact Zoe and Geoff who led me to Rogner-Bad Blumau, a thermal bath resort in southern Austria housed in spectacularly cool Hundertwasser buildings. We were blessed with the heaviest snowfall since the …
Not just dreaming of a white Christmas …
I’ve often thought we Australians have it tough, having to wait until the morning of the 25th to open our presents while most European kids have been playing with their new toys since the night before. But this Christmas, the three of us got ourselves so busy with enjoying the snow that we didn’t …