Category: Written by Dagmar Travner

So, my daughter and I back home in Vienna after 6 1/2 weeks travelling through North-America and 3 weeks relaxing in Klagenfurt, my hometown, in Carinthia, a southern state of Austria. Though back in Vienna a great change is going to happen next week: My son - nearly 20 years old - will be moving … Continue reading Back home in Vienna

Yes, we have been there - in North-America 😉 New York - Champaign, IL - Chicago - Milwaukee - Billings - Seattle - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Venice Beach - Newport - Phoenix - Albuquerque :)))) - Santa Fe - Denver - Chicago - Mount Pleasant, MI - Sleeping Bear dunes, MI - … Continue reading North-America

Lots of people asked me why I planned to take just the greyhound bus for touring through North America and advised me to consider the Amtrak train instead. The Amtrak were more comfortable and faster and moreover travelling by greyhound were just foolish, unusual and a real torture. So let me explain a bit about … Continue reading Going West: Greyhound, Albuquerque and other idées fixes 😉

Yesterday the ingenious Alban Berg Quartett gave it's last concert in Vienna at the Konzerthaus; the Ensemble, founded in Vienna in 1971, has been one of the most amazing string quartets in the world and many contemporary composeres dedicated them special works: so e.g. Berio, Lutoslawski, Schnittke, Urbanner and Rihm read more about the ABQ … Continue reading Alban Berg Quartett – Farewell concert in Vienna

My new camcorder: a canon HF 100! Just great, see it's first video 😉  

Weekend afternoons and evenings lot's of Viennese people use to spend at a typical new wine tavern in the outskirts of Vienna, midst of vineyards and in full nature. We are lucky to live in such an area and so we meet quite often with friends at such a "Heurigen" as we call those taverns … Continue reading Saturday relaxing at a wine tavern

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On weekends my husbands loves to barbecue... see for yourself 😉

Today our greek tortoise layed 6 eggs! Last week our female tortoise Beaubeau (about 30 years old) has been running around being somehow quite nervous and restless - a sure sign she was about laying her eggs soon. It had been rainy and quite cold those days, to cold to lay eggs, as warm temperatures … Continue reading The first new tortoise eggs of this year 🙂

Mon petit ange est de retour de la France! Bien arrivée ce soir, après été allée de Nantes en TGV à Paris, puis en avion à Vienne; elle semble d'être très heureuse et un peu moins enfant qu'au départ... SHE IS BACK! My little daughter, my special angel, is back from Nantes in France! Happiness … Continue reading A very special diary of a very special daughter 🙂

Last sunday was Pentecost what means a long holiday weekend with holidays from Saturday until Monday, schools even until Tuesday. As I was invited to a so-called network meeting (see photo below) in Ljubljana on saturday evening we decided to spend our vacancies there. As it happened to be the second in May that Sunday … Continue reading Mother‘s Day in Ljubljana

What could be more amazing than listening to inspiring music? So, follow me to a lonely beach, lean back, relax and enjoy Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez, played by Paco de Lucia

Could there be anything more romantic than the North sea and it's dunes, the low deep sky and its western wind? Let's dream together, mes amis 😉 Ce plat pays, la mer du nord, les dunes et le vent d'ouest - rien de plus fascinant et romantique dans le monde! Un rêve de beauté... Listen … Continue reading Mon rêve de la mer du nord

Have a wonderful new spring my friends - je vous souhaite des merveilleuse journées en ce printemps, mes ami(e)s!Chez nous en Autriche l'hiver nous fait signe de ne pas l'oublier en envoyant encore de la neige. Mais les fleurs, ici on voit des perce-neige dans mon jardin, les messagers du printemps nous chuchotent que le … Continue reading Typical Austrian spring: winter says hello!