Am Domplatz Linz
Stifterstrasse 4 Linz, Upper Austria, Austria
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Frohe Weihnachten!
... still wonderful. It has booths selling gluhwein (hot wine) pastries, chocolate covered fruits, roasted nuts, and many other souvenir type items.
There are many lights throughout the city, mostly in Hauptplatz, that light up the town and are so beautiful. The Austrian's "Christmas symbol" is Christkindl (baby Jesus) instead of Santa Claus, although, with the commercialization of American and its Santa has ...
Thanksgiving in Austria
This past Thursday the group of Americans here (and some Canadians) celebrated Thanksgiving together! I was rather impressed with ourselves too. The whole sha-bang went well and we had everything we would normally eat at home and none of the food turned out to be a disaster. While the food was still in the oven we had appetizers of veggies and dip, a cheese ball, pizza dip and chips, and some shrimp with cocktail sauce. For ...
Die Reise beginnt ...
... chtig. Eva fand das gar nicht lustig und hat jetzt noch einen Schrecken davon( Zusatz Eva: Hab mir immer gedacht, dass ich in Notfallsituationen recht "cool" bin und eine geborene Ersthelferin bin, aber in dieser Situation bin ich richtig hysterisch geworden und hab nur mehr "HELP"; "Can please anybody do something" und "is there a doctor " geschrien). Mir gings dann aber bald wieder besser, die Sauerstoffmaske hat dazu beigetragen ;-)
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Darkness in Austria's History
... more outside and after this we had about 30 minutes of free time to wander and look around ourselves.
In this time I went to the building where the gas chamber and cremetory was. The gas chamber was rather small, but being inside gave me more goosebumps knowing so many people died in there. A few rooms down was the crematory where two cremators were. Now there are memorial signs throughout. The whole building and all ...
Reflections and Experience
... it might be sour cream, but it's definitely not.
- #1 thing that I dislike the most. Business hours. I cannot get used to that. I always need something last minute and everything is closed! Sundays are dead, and in the evening. There is one store that stays open late but it's all the way at the train station.
- Random thing I noticed.. All the girls, and most of the guys, are really tall here. So I can wear heels and not stand out :)
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