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Looking Back

Art / Ausflug / Fotos / Kunst / Natur / Pix / Seasonal / ShortTrip - 7 weeks ago - cheesy

I was quite lazy recently so I bring an update of my blog today.

Earring Workshop

Conny, Susanne and I spent one afternoon creating earrings and we got some quite nice results. Here it goes:

Spring Walk

David and I used the beautiful sunshiny spring to walk around our neighbourhood and take some pictures:

Charles’ Church

Quite spontaneously I decided to pay the 6 Euro entry fee to visit Charles’ Church. I spent years and years studying right next to it but I have never been in there before. After two tiny and disappointing exhibition rooms I went into the main part of the church. Unfortunately you can’t see the cupola from below because someone had the glorious idea to build a scaffolding for the tourists. The scaffolding is made up of an elevator and a rescue staircase on one side and a little tiny scaffolding structure on the other side. In between there is a platform at the height of the cupola.

As I had paid already I took the elevator. Luckily I don’t suffer from acrophobia! Still halfway up the glass elevator I felt my stomach turn – this was really high up! Up on the scaffolding I realized immediately that everything is shaking… Here a look back down:

In the middle of the platform there is another scaffolding – a staircase up to the top of the cupola (called lantern). On the bottom of the stairs is a sign saying: “Running and jumping endangers your life! Screaming is not cool!”

Weeeell … now that I’m here – what can happen? Another warning sign on the bottom of the stairs: “Maximum 10 people!” Great! I can hear people up there … but it’s quite hard to count from here… Still I go up! On top there will surely be a safe place, or will there? No of course not. The scaffolding ends in a tiny platform with a view over Vienna. I didn’t stay there for long. Back down on the ground I realized that I was sweaty all over and my heart was still drumming…

But the pictures came out great!

P.S.: A little detail – a comparison between the marble on the bottom close to the ground and on top under the cupola:

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Genesis Nature Reserve and Rainbow Waterfall

Natur / Pflanzen / Plants / Tiere / Urlaub / Vacation / animals - 3 months ago - cheesy

After a rich breakfast with tea and toast with peanut butter and guava jam we went for Scarborough with our rented car. We actually wanted to see Fort George but couldn’t find it – plus I didn’t have the nerves for the traffic. So we went on.

For 200TT$ (aprox. 30US$) we stopped at the “Genesis Nature Park”. This is a small self-proclaimed zoo where we could see life versions of the favourite meat of Tobagonians – and therefore almost extinguished – agoutis and collared peccaries. Actually it was quite interesting to talk to one of the locals but I’m not sure if it was worth the money.

Luckily he described us the way to the rainbow waterfall. Otherwise I’m pretty sure we would have missed the little road going there. Another 200TT$ later we got a detailed instruction how to find the waterfall. It was not too hard to find: right after crossing the river turn left and follow the path. The next time you come to the river walk along or through it to the left until you find a way out on the right side. Follow the path again and simply cross the river a third time. When you come upon the river a fourth time, do as you did the second time. Walk a bit more and you are there… Simple, isn’t it?

It was a walk of about half an hour in the midst of the rain forest, partly quite muddy. But we didn’t have much problems finding the waterfall. And it was quite beautiful! We could swim there and – maybe because of the long way – we were all alone.

Back in the apartment we cooked dinner – pasta with shrimps, salmon and local herbal sauce. Yummy!

All Pics:

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Walking through Klosterneuburg

Ausflug / Natur / ShortTrip - 1 year ago - cheesy

David and I were walking through Klosterneuburg twice. Here are the pix:

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Billiard and Rainbow

Fotos / Freunde / Friends / Game / Natur / Spiel - 1 year ago - cheesy

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Strasshof, Prater and Windischgarsten

Ausflug / Familie / Family / Feste / Fotos / Freunde / Friends / Natur / Pflanzen / Pix / Plants / Restaurant / ShortTrip - 1 year ago - cheesy

On 17th I’ve been to my parents’ to help them out a bit and I took some nice pics of my mum’s plants:

On 20th Evi had her birthday party in Prater and I set my own personal beer record up to nine and a half (4.75l beer)…

This weekend David and I picked up Conny in Windischgarsten and celebrated her birthday together with her.

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(Deutsch) Myrafälle

Ausflug / Fotos / Freunde / Friends / Natur / Pix / ShortTrip - 1 year ago - David Schmitt

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Carnivorous Plants

Fotos / Natur / Pflanzen / Pix / Plants - 1 year ago - cheesy

Yesterday I went to the local DIY store and instantly fell in love with the carnivorous plants they had there. Since the radish I had planted in my Farmville planter, I got me four new friends – Nephertiti Nepenthes (Tropical pitcher plant), Sergio Sarracenia (North American pitcher plant), Doris Drosera (Sundew) und Dyonisos Dionaea (Venus fly trap).

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