Zeitraffer

Ungarn im Juni

Juli in Wien



Arnold mit Sau


Zweiter Geburtstag





Papa-Zeit

Ungarn im August





in Wien mit Angie/Susan

auf Kreta im September


Dazwischen im Zoo


Hochzeit im Oktober

Long time no see!

Dear, dear what a time. We have been doing some things since June and will reveal them to you one after the other.
First the overall situation: Julia's projects ends in Octobre. So does my parental leave in Septembre. In order to spent " valuable baby time" ( in men speech: time) with Paul off we went to Hungary to Heide's place. Friends joined us and with Rene constantly insisting on going on long walks we actually spent relaxing days there. Paul was all over the place and allthough the grass was humming with bees and wasps was only stung once. Here he is chasing the cat, his favourite activity wherever he is.

BBQ, drinks, the sun and the pool. We took shifts guarding Paul, because every time he sees water he jumps into it! Watch out people! There is always the " I thought you would look after Paul"-situation so do it militarily- a change of guards.

Here I am after 2 years still trying to combine sleeping with playing with Paul. Still does not work.


Soon after Hungary Julia went off to celebrate Anne's her sister's graduation. She is now an art therapist. Paul went with Julia ( since I was ill) and had a nice time. Met a girl his age whom he followed all around the place.




And here is Anne, her new boyfriend Philipp, and I think Mr Onassis ;-)


More to come soon.

A trip to Malta and back!

Caught you! If you thought that the money I made with the training tour through Austria is kept for "hard times" you are wrong. In order to help overcome the global economy crisis Julia informed me that we need to spend it right away. (I think she received a phone call from bustling Mr. President Obama concerning that subject.)
Anyway, we booked a week in a hotel in the malta valley, which is quite misleading because the valley for most of its length is a gorge. So either you go in or out. See it yourself on that map ( leading to the top left):
http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Malta&sll=51.37178,10.415039&sspn=23.790808,53.569336&ie=UTF8&ll=46.983532,13.500137&spn=0.202364,0.41851&t=h&z=12

It's called the valley of falling waters with hundreds of little waterfalls, so you better pack your rubber boots. The entire region of Upper Carinthia is specialised in holidays with kids. Pets, playgrounds, adventure tours, fairy tale tours are offered all over the place.
Valley entrance somewhere near "Brandstatt" on the map.

Here it is: our hotel. Do you see the fence behind the hotel? It's against rockfall.


We saw herons, eagles, buzzards, a hummingbird moth and I think I even heard a chamois at night but the worst of all: cows!
Julia says: "I can only imagine one animal more terrifying than a cow and that would be a cow with wings. They would fly up to your balcony." Considering this the following picture was taken with incredible courage.



Here we are leaving the "Gößgräben" a tour I insisted on since the name reminds me of a once decent Styrian beer.( Now owned and desecrated by Heineken)



20 minutes up the road there is the tollhouse for the mountain raod to the "Kölnpreinsperre" with its 200 m height one of Europe's highest reservoir dams. The trip up the road is quite fascinating itself with many passages where only one car at the time can pass and tunnels without light where streams of water run down the cave walls.



The superadvatage of the Mei Tei over the backpack: one doesn't have to constuct strange cushion devices in order to comfort Paul.



The donkey park was our favourite: donkeys, horses, pheasants, rabbits, goats, even lamas. And a pig called "Marlene" with 13 piglets. Paul ran all over the field spotting dung and calling out " A A!"


Sitting and staring at water. Suits my gray hair.