My life as Austrian in Austria

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Austrian farm on a Tuesday morning in Feburary. The snow will be gone soon.

This years “End of the year lunch” in a white landscape.

A little trip during lunchtime on a cloudy Thursday at the beginning of February.

A lonely traffic circle during lunchtime on a cloudy Thursday in February.

Today was my last working day this year. So it was time for my traditional lunch in the restaurant called “Haltestelle Oftering”.

Last year I had to cancel my tradition, because I had to stay in bed with flue. But this year I had no flue, and so I went to this certain kind of restaurant for my fancy “end of the year lunch”.

I arrived just some minutes past 11:00am. Yes, I was the first guest today. As always in that special day once in a year.

The young waitress had black hair and brought me some magazines while I was waiting for my lunch.

The candle was burning, and I ordered Veltliner wine from Hadersdorf in Lower Austria. The wine was excellent.

And this was my lunch: Grillteller with French Fries and vegetables. The meat was very tender and tasteful. I have enjoyed it a lot.

And at the end: the invoice. 11,70 Euro for the lunch, and two Euro for the wine. I gave a tip of one Euro and 30 cent. So my total sum was 15 Euro.

See you next year at the restaurant called “Haltestelle Oftering” ...

Somewhere in the south of Austrias third biggest city Linz on a cloudy Tuesday afternoon …

... in 2008.

I really love my path to the hairdresser. It’s such an odyssey to get there. But I enjoy it every time. Today probably the last time this year. It was on a capricious afternoon at the end of October.

Red light! Waiting on the crossroads.

Let’s kick the accelerator pedal.

Leaving the first village behind me.

Driving alone on empty street into open field.

The road is becoming more narrow. It’s going up though.

The special trees. My favourite passage of the whole path.

With full speed into the forest.

Through the forest …

... and out of the forest. Almost at the finish.

Austrian desert on a hot Wednesday in August on the way to the hairdresser by bicycle …

These are all four stars hotels in Dornbirn:

Four stars hotels in Dornbirn