Landesfestumzug, 20.09.2009
the tyrolean state celebrated the 200 year anniversary of andreas hofer‘s rebellion against napoleon’s franco-bavarian army over the past weekend. the highlight of the celebrations was probably the massive parade on sunday. there was much criticism before the celebrations—andreas hofer is considered by some as an extremist and terrorist. more recently, there was a terrorist [...]
conradler in vienna
this weekend, eva & i went to vienna with the conradler. the occasion: the harvest festival of the austrian bauernbund. the bus picked us up in kufstein, where it wasn’t quite raining. the bus trip, was as always, good fun: stefan, our tubist, did a great job of running us out to vienna in pouring [...]
Washington DC, December 2006
i was sorting through my pictures recently and found these pictures from my trip to washington dc in december 2006. i spent most of a morning walking around the washington mall, freezing my fingers off. i got to see all the sights though. world war II memorial: washington monument: reflecting pool: lincoln memorial: korea memorial: [...]
weekend in kufstein
i spent the weekend in kufstein with eva. of course, i took the camera with me. as always. saturday afternoon, we went to ebbs for coffee and cake. the place we went to (i can’t remember the name) has an amazing view of the inn valley around kufstein: on sunday, i had a surprise call [...]