Entries from January 2009

January 17, 2009

A boar´s head in the cold

Strolling down Freyung square in Vienna I found this on the back of one of the sales stalls of the organic food market there… Somehow… well,  interesting…

January 14, 2009

Snow in Vienna

Just two impressions from the snow capped Sigmund Freud Park in Vienna today. So good to have a cell-camera!

Besides, I like snow

January 11, 2009

Couchsurfing.net is spying my position!

Editing my profile on couchsurfing.com I stumbled over an entry, next to the time of my last login, of my exact position when I was loging in!
At first I wasn´t sure how couchsurfing.com could do it or if they were allowed to do it. But while thinking about it I got more and more appalled [...]

January 5, 2009

Big downturner, Café Ritter

While looking for new jeans I stumbled over an old traditional viennes coffeehouse in the middle of the lively Mariahiflerstraße. Café Ritter is situated in the middle of this shopping street in a wonderfull, splendid house from the 19th century.
The café is one large, L-shaped room with a high, stucko panneled cieling. So it could [...]

January 2, 2009

Oz-Cinethek in Vienna

As someone being interested in films I find it hard to find good, classic films. Most video shops don´t have films like “Dr. Stranglove”. What´s more, it´s even hard finding them on the internet.
Happily, I found a video shop with exactly this choice, and they even serve great coffe. It´s the Oz – Cinethek in [...]

January 1, 2009

Happy new year and “On the Underground” board game

All the best for 2009 to all readers of my blog! May it be a year of health and happiness!
A new game came into my life this christmas, my partner gave me “On the underground” as a present, aim of the game is to build the best tube-lines net in London´s underground.
It´s a game for [...]