Maria Hilfer Hola again
First trip out to Ober St Veit to hunt for garden set in Leiner for Trude. Chairs ordered, then to Maria Hilfer Str for desperate coffee and Thai soup. The hunt for a bike helmet was not very successful, but…
Augustinerkirche
11am mass, Organ Mass by Haydn, followed by würstel stand and coffee at Palm Haus. Heat inspires us to seek the cool of Weimarer Str. Late afternoon stroll to Türkenschanz for a sippers at Diglas.
Stupendous Verdi Requiem
Friday 13th – a suitably great day! Brilliant evening catching a 530pm coach for the Grafenegg Festival. Proseccos in an open-air bar, loose wander on the lawn, then to the open-air concert auditorium for the opening event, Verdi’s Requiem. A…
421pm Vienna train
Walk round Camping while poor Mungo beavers away sorting out apartment. Lunch, off to Greiffenburg. 5hrs in train. Great weather.
Schifftfahrt Weißensee
Aboard the 1115 Müller boat for a lake trip! Capuchinos, and eiscafe for Trude. I disembark at Dolomiten Blick, the fair ladies at Kleine Steinwand, all walking to Ronackerfels. I carry on via a higher path to Techendorf where we…
Spital und Berg
Early morning struggle to get to Spital and a meeting with the Öffentliche Notar, Herr Magister Dr Josef Trampitsch. He duly certifies for my Irish passport application. We then wander around the town, stopping in a couple of shops before…
Tschatcheria
We walk round the lake to this simple gasthaus, only open when the weather is good.
Tschabischer
Walking, whilst Mungo and Trude go in different direction. Towards Weissen Wand, then down to Tschabi and back by lower route. Kompass app works very well. See at the bottom for video of Trude’s Timbuktu joke!
Walks & boat
I walk round west Weißensee, Trude and Mungo go to Ronackerfels for fish soup. Then Zimmerman where Trude kindly invites.
Bergbahn woohoo!
Up the mountain cable car, short walk for capuchinos, then long walk back down. All with good dry weather.
Singing in the rain
Walk to Techendorf and Spar, back by bus. Pre-birthday celebration at lunch for Trude with Mungsie’s smoked salmon cake. Late afternoon walk to Camping Müller. Grey and drizzly weather the whole day.
Catching Trude!
Whole afternoon spent going east on Öbb. To Weißensee see! Mungo sleeping all the way of course, when not nibbling. Finally arriving via shuttle at Weißensee, Trude’s hideout. She is in good form, the lamb is just incredible, and the…
Kafka himself
Starting the day badly with a PCR, then continuous shopping for Swatch spare strap, Nespresso, stinkers, glorious wrapping paper for presents, new large hockey bag (¡!¡), and finishing with Billa und laks. Actually the day actually began with a walk…